The kid who assaulted and robbed Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s son in Chicago last year is in no better condition today, despite being given no sentence but probation instead by the judge months ago. Judge told him to stay away from gangs and drugs and reportedly he has done neither. Maybe compassion for this kid from the judge (and probably from Emanuel, too) was misplaced. This kid may have needed jail time, to keep him safely away from temptation.
Jail is NOT the place to get away from gangs.
The problems surrounding some kids are way too extensive and multi-faceted to blame just one thing or another. For any kid to succeed from that environment, there need to be efforts from many places at the same time. Sadly, that rarely happens.
Jail or juvenile hall may scare some straight, but such an environment where most interaction and socialization is with other criminals probably turns others into hardened criminals.
How about: no jail time, but public caning…
(stay away from gangs) or people we all know who get in trouble and we hear…“he got in with the wrong crowd”. the problem when people say" he got in with the wrong crowd" …that crowd is made up of people and the other peoples families also say their son or daughter got in with the wrong crowd…ummmm no…your child is part of the problem not a victim of it. it is a collective group who feeds off each other. for whatever reason people are drawn to certain things. telling someone to find new friends will not correct that issue.
Well, of course just telling someone to find new friends doesn’t help. But it’s clearly the case that kids raised in “good” communities with “good” schools do better than their counterparts in nearby towns that are not as “good.” The socioeconomic status of one’s peers matters. That’s why houses cost more in the “good” communities. Everyone wants to move there.
“good” communities do not make better people!
there are bullies,jerks ,mean people etc etc etc from rich gated communities too!
Yes, there are. But peer pressure goes both ways: Negative and positive. I think my children learned some good things from their peers by our living in a “good” community.