Juvenile Crime In Scott County

"There's not a lot of opportunity in Scott County. The poverty, lack of education, jobs — it all ties together. A lot of people think they're sort of stuck here. They feel hopeless," according to Chris Albertson, a Scott County council member. Scottsburg is a city of boredom, drugs, and trouble. The way to fix most of these problems is to give kids something to do that is not drugs or troublemaking. While there is not enough money in Scottsburg to be able to build entertainment for kids, there need to be more places and activities for kids that are safe, legal, and responsible, because it would stop a lot of kids from doing drugs and getting into legal trouble, it would make the kids in our town more responsible and improve academic achievement,
According to the article “Hitting the Wall: Youth Perspectives on Boredom, Trouble, and Drug Use Dynamics Rural New Mexico” by Cathleen L. Willging, a medical anthropologist that specializes in mental health researches, a huge leading cause to juvenile crimes is boredom. In Scottsburg a lot of kids are always bored, and a lot crimes happen because of this. According to the article “Violent video games may stop crime by keeping criminals busy playing violent video games” by Evan Dashevsky, a pcworld.com editor and writer, a way to stop some of these crimes is by building an arcade or giving the criminals violent video games, which would some of the stop crimes by keeping the criminals/delinquents busy and off the streets. Also, evidence shows that the experience of boredom in rural areas had led to the decision of drug abuse and troublemaking.
According to the book “Children’s understanding of well-being,” findings on well-being indicated that the public places where children did feel safe tended to be those specially designed to be child-friendly places where they could have fun or enjoy a sport. According to the “After-School Alliance Organization,” “More than 15 million students— including approximately 3.7 million middle schoolers—are alone and unsupervised between 3 and 6 p.m, the peak hours for juvenile crime and experimentation with drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and sex.” In Scottsburg, a lot of kids experiment with drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and sex. A lot of kids here like to have “fun” with their friends, which leads to bad decisions when they are alone and unsupervised. Also, according to Bridget Laird, the chief executive of Wings for Kids, if there is not any activities or places for kids to be, they will all just continue to run the streets and cause a lot of