Youth crime

form the www.direct.gov.uk. webside about youth crime roport point out'Overall youth crime remains stable but challenges remain particularly around alcohol-related crime, delinquent peer groups and gangs and young people carrying knives. Each year around 100,000 young people aged 10 -17 enter the criminal justice system for the first time. The new Action Plan aims to reduce this rate by one fifth by 2020 and in turn to substantially reduce the number of young victims'.Chines state media said:" The number of juvenile criminals in China has more than doubled over the past decade, as broken homes and a decline in social values have spurred youth delinquency".

Compared with Britain, China's juvenile delinquency more serious. China is a populous country, there are many farmers to the cities to work, neglected children in the home, but now there are many networks of violence and yellow things, the impact of these factors are a major factor in juvenile crime.

Broken homes seemed to be the main factor behind the explosion in youth delinquency, BBC said, quoting Beijing's Haidian District Court as saying 59 percent of underage criminals came from broken families and had often experienced domestic violence.

The public distinguishes between the purpose of sentencing adults and juveniles. Rehabilitation was seen as more important for juveniles than adult offenders.
The public also distinguishes between the purpose of prison for young and adult offenders. Education and job training were seen as being more relevant to juvenile than to adult prisons. Punishment was seen as more important for adult prisons than for juvenile institutions.

In my opinion, family education is the most important, when a youger child should have to tell him what he can do and what did was against the law, and if things do break the law will be what kind of punishment.