Likelihood of street kids producing violence

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Criminology

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The provision of this follows the accumulated behavior within a certain region. In that inner-city section, there are always cases of muggings, burglaries as well as other violent behaviors that the street kids see and interact with during their stay at the streets. It is provided that this indication of living in such an environment provokes the street kids to develop that behavior since it is what they seem to learn and see applicable for them in that environment, (Anderson, 1994). It simply calls for the behavior to be learnt in a short period of time and from there, the expression is provided. Alienation from the mainstream society has been considered to also provoke a high degree of violent activity by the street kids.

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