Saturday, March 24, 2012

Drink and drugs are to blame for violence in the young

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We must not impose long sentences on young men whose crimes are fueled by alcohol and drugs, says Caspar Walsh, but provides a good model to guide them into adulthood

Many violent crimes committed by persons under 18 years takes place while intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. Chemistry "value" necessary to perform terrible acts that few sober people would never dare to commit. These crimes are often committed desperate need to belong to a gang or a mistaken belief that it is the rite of passage that must be followed to adulthood. My rites of passage work with young men in the past 13 years has made something very clear to me: a certain age, usually between 15 and 18, young people begin to question their mortality, and that questioning is a strong desire to look death in the face and know if it's true. Most men may admit to feel indestructible and immortal at some point in their adolescence. This is a common, if greater, knowingly used by many countries to recruit young people, with open eyes the soldiers to senseless wars.

I was talking recently about a young prisoner of gang violence for which he was convicted. I suggested that, in the absence of security, more male role models to guide him into adulthood, he and his band were trying to start from each other by acts of violence that threatens the life on the hope that it would be able to call themselves men. I told him that the opening was not his work was dangerous, if not fatal, to believe he was. This is the work of men who lived their own rite of passage and the other side alive. The men who were members reliable, safe and productive member of society, men like me and many others with whom we work. I saw his jaw slack with recognition of a truth that I was told later that he felt in his gut, but was not able to put into words. And what made this type of violence is possible, acceptable, even had a skin of drugs and alcohol in your system.
  • I have no idea what real, it must be like to face a tariff of life as a teenager. Three young men I'm working with have given 99 years in prison. A 16 year old boy and he will do with a minimum of 18 years before he sits in front of its board of parole in the first. I wonder if this type of sentence has been carefully through which they are led to believe? Prisons are a critical element of society. Some people should be locked up for reasons of public safety, and some long. Families and friends are torn apart by violent crimes committed by individuals who are, frankly, still children, are wrong in assuming they are adults. But it is fair to give the same sentence of violence against children aged 16, the High Commission in the crack or vodka as you would with a person over the age of 18?
  • A 2009 Youth Survey commissioned by the Council of Justice shows that young offenders who were still in general education at the time, 17% were drunk or drinking alcohol the offender, and 7% had used drugs. For young offenders in units of reference for students, the figures are higher, at 24% and 16%. My experience tells me that the actual number of crimes committed while in the toxic products is much, much higher. It is not enough public attention or media on the issue of drug abuse and its relationship to violent crime committed by juveniles. If young people to commit violent crimes while intoxicated to receive such long sentences? For my part, I am willing to work with, substance abuse and the reasons and guide them through this very difficult time in their lives. A stage where a child fights, drunk driving has not only destroyed the life of the victim and his family, but also the lives of youths convicted of the crime. A young man must have seen and understood by responsible adults before watching, eyes red and high, the face of death without having any knowledge of what life really means.
. Caspar Walsh is a writer and journalist and founder of the registered charity in the UK Write to Freedom

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