Today, news headlines are bombarded with accounts of heinous crimes that were reported to have been done by minors. True enough there were such instances and there still is a huge possibility of other crimes to be committed by teenagers. School shootings, rape, murder and robbery – something you can’t bear to think that a child can do. That’s why, politicians started to pass policies that will obstinate crime committed by teens. But in a book by Franklin Zimmering, an expert on juvenile justice. This crime wave that people fear is a fictitious notion. A conclusion built with unjustifiable premises and as he describes it, “evidence of a juvenile crime wave — either current or on the horizon — is no more substantial than the evidence that supports the existence of the Loch Ness Monster.”

Here are some facts that he discovered in his study. Facts; not something that is built out of exaggeration and imagination of a scenario that seems to be fantasized about because of its horridness, (sometimes politicians can be very good in making up bad conclusion to make people think that they need them):

–>Since 1980, arrest rates for juveniles, ages 13 to 17, accused of rape and robbery shows no identifiable trend, either up or down. Rates are currently lower than they were in 1980.

–>The homicide arrest rate for juveniles rose sharply between 1984 and 1992. but declined by more than one-third by 1996 and, according to just-released FBI figures, dropped an additional 16 percent in 1997

–>Most of the increase in the arrest rate for aggravated assault for juveniles during the 1984 -1992 period was due to a change in the way police report and classify such arrests. A lower threshold for crimes considered aggravated assault created a crime wave only on paper.

Its just so depressing to think that a lot of people that Americans have voted to lead them has already placed a tag on 6 percent of the 21.5 million teens who are still in middle school at the moment; that those 6 percent will be doing heinous crimes – robbing, murdering and raping people at their teens.

Most parents will usually resort to counseling when dealing with their struggling children. Sometimes it works, only means that your child’s bad behavior is not yet in it’s severest case or you must have been lucky to find a good therapist. Unfortunately it doesn’t always work like that. In the start of a session, most teenagers normally prefer not to open up to their therapist. In repetitive visit, they would start being selective in the things that they disclose to their therapist. After a few more sessions, surprisingly no difference surfaces because seriously theres nothing wrong with these teens, so there’s nothing to treat. Some of them simply got used to a negative behavioral pattern. 

So what do most parents do when the time comes that they can no longer control their rebellious children? One good and effective solution is by sending them to a boot camp.

Boot camps can help rebellious and struggling children who are unresponsive to normal counseling. Boot camps instill positive values to your child which he or she will bring long after leaving boot camp. This may be a process of enforcement of will but sometimes, it would take a tighter grasp on the teen for him to change. Showing them that negative acts corresponds to negative consequences may teach them that there isn’t anything they will get from misbehaving. Recent studies have shown that boots camps having succeeded where counseling has failed. So for parents who are having a hard time dealing with their children’s behavior, sending them to boot camp can do them a lot of good.