Unit 4 Education Youth Crime Analysis
Analysis Essay Unit 4 Assignment
Education, Youth Crime, and Delinquency
LaKisha Overton
Kaplan University
CJ150-01
Professor Jennifer Hulvat
May 13, 2014
Education, Youth, Crime, and Delinquency
Imagine graduating from high school unable to read or being teased by your peers because of receiving Special Education services in school. The lack of academic achievement has a phenomenal effect on youth. Specifically juvenile delinquents and the overall juvenile justice system. Many youth are unable to succeed in school for reasons such as diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities and are dropping out of school because of lack of interest or inability to succeed. “According to the 2012 Maryland Assessment, 34.5% of Baltimore City 3rd graders are reading below grade level, a figure that is double the state average” (Baltimore City Library Project, 2014, para.1). According to this statistic, it’s difficult for a child not to be on the pipeline for crime or dropping out of school. It’s the duty of the national school systems to provide alternative methods that will embrace the issues which are effecting the academic growth of children; ultimately providing them with less options as adolescents and adults. …show more content…
Many incarcerated youth have learning disabilities. “Between 28 & 43% of incarcerated youth have special educational needs” (Fink, Morgan)
A learning disability is defined as being a disorder in one or more of main psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, read, writing, spell, or do mathematics calculations. (U.S. Office of Education. P.
Education, Youth Crime, and Delinquency
LaKisha Overton
Kaplan University
CJ150-01
Professor Jennifer Hulvat
May 13, 2014
Education, Youth, Crime, and Delinquency
Imagine graduating from high school unable to read or being teased by your peers because of receiving Special Education services in school. The lack of academic achievement has a phenomenal effect on youth. Specifically juvenile delinquents and the overall juvenile justice system. Many youth are unable to succeed in school for reasons such as diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities and are dropping out of school because of lack of interest or inability to succeed. “According to the 2012 Maryland Assessment, 34.5% of Baltimore City 3rd graders are reading below grade level, a figure that is double the state average” (Baltimore City Library Project, 2014, para.1). According to this statistic, it’s difficult for a child not to be on the pipeline for crime or dropping out of school. It’s the duty of the national school systems to provide alternative methods that will embrace the issues which are effecting the academic growth of children; ultimately providing them with less options as adolescents and adults. …show more content…
Many incarcerated youth have learning disabilities. “Between 28 & 43% of incarcerated youth have special educational needs” (Fink, Morgan)
A learning disability is defined as being a disorder in one or more of main psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, read, writing, spell, or do mathematics calculations. (U.S. Office of Education. P.