CRMN 3027 U- Delinquency, Deviance, and Youth Crime

Delinquency, Deviance, and Youth Crime
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Delinquency, Deviance, and Youth Crime
Evidence-Based Proposal on Gun Violence: Youth Justice Act
All countries have a principle that helps them in improving the existing laws, especially when they feel it is no longer effective. It can also be because there are new ideas that need to be incorporated into the existing laws to make them more effective. The Youth Criminal Justice Act in Canada seems not to be effective anymore. Many are even wondering whether it ever was effective since its inception. The Federal Minister of Public Safety, Bill Blair, among others, feels that making reforms to the Youth Criminal Justice Act will be very instrumental in curbing gun violence among the youths. This proposal, therefore, proposes a new act called the Youth Justice Act based on criminological evidence research. I believe this will be more effective than the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Instances of gun violence among youths have risen exponentially over the past years. Homicide statistics show that there was an alarming increase rate in gun violence incidence by 48 percent in the year 2005 compared to the previous year. Fifty-two percent of incidences of gun violence came from guns from licensed owners. The incidents were mainly recorded in the census metropolitan areas meaning than many youths have access to firearms, and they misuse them (Ramsay et al., 2017).
The firearms used to commit these crimes come from domestic purchases that sometimes end up being used for crime by the legal owner of the gun or when the arm has been stolen. The legal owner can also give out his or her gun knowingly to a person who is not licensed. Other guns come from international trafficking from black markets with most of the guns coming from the United States (Ramsay et al., 2017)
Summary of Evidence
Gangs
The research found out that there are gangs that terrorize residents. This has proven hard to control gun violence rate ...