Littering

Littering is a crime that is committed by everyone but most likely committed by people at the ages of twelve to twenty. This is only because it is seen as a childish immature thing to do. Most people do not realize if you litter in certain spots you will be fined a lot of money. It can go up to two hundred dollars. Littering is known to be a crime that you cannot get arrested for but can definitely get a summons for it. It is more serious if you throw it out your window in the car because the person behind you can get distracted and run over it or not know what it is and swerve and end up crashing. Flicking a cigarette out the window is the worst part of littering you can do because if it gets stuck in the person windshield you can cause a big fire like that or even worse you can miss out the window and get it in your backseat and start a fire. Most young kids find this very funny and amusing because they do not want to walk to the garbage to throw out their trash. This makes it so much harder for the sanitation men to pick up this trash. Most people do not find it funny as much as the youths do because this can also mess up the environment.

Cigarette Smoking With Youths

Cigarette smoking is the number one killer these days. Especially between the youths, this is a very bad disaster. It is bad enough if someone starts smoking at age thirty. Now days these kids are starting to smoke at the age of ten and eleven. As years go on, the age group gets younger and younger for things like this. Now what the kids are doing are having people who are of age, buy them the cigarettes. This is going to make the lives of the youths end sooner than they expect. It was researched if they start at the ages of ten to thirteen they will live approximately to the age of sixty, sometimes even younger. Cigarette smoking is seen as “cool” to the kids and the younger they are, the more of them are doing it. In my grade it would be absurd if we saw someone in eighth grade smoking a cigarette. My age would see it as very weird as any other age would. This is something that cannot be controlled unless cigarettes were mad illegal. It is a proven fact that more people who are younger have been smoking cigarettes when they were younger rather than older. This can cause many types of problems with the heart and breathing at a young age.

Cheating/Plagiarism

Cheating and Plagiarism is seen as one of the worst things you can do in school to get your self in trouble. I do not know which one is worse but all I do know is that they can both get you kicked out of school. Plagiarism is when you copy and paste the exact words from a story on the internet and copy and paste it into your own Microsoft word document. Teachers have been catching on and have a website now called Turnitin.com which basically lets them read the paper of the student and if they have any suspicion at all that they have plagiarized, they type in any sentence from the story and it will give them the website that it was copied from.
Cheating is very serious and kids are finding more and more ways to try and pull this off. It went from copying with your eyes from the student next to you, to the cell phone technique, the headphones, the water bottle. Some students have the answers stored in their cell phone, others pretend they are listening to music and can really be listening to answers they recorded onto. Some students do the water bottle which basically is when they take off the label to the water bottle and write the answers in on it so that it looks less suspicious since a lot of people bring water bottles to school. The other way is just making a little sheet of paper with answers on it or writing it on your arm which is not being used as much anymore because everyone keeps getting to get caught that way.

Violent Movies Affecting Teens Behavior

Some movies that are being shown today have a very bad affect on young kids today. There are movies like Freddy Cruger, Jason, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and all the Saw movies that are portraying people with these bad thoughts. Some people, mostly being youths, watch these movies and enjoy the killer being bad. In most horror, bloody, violent murder movies, it usually begins with there being a bad guy which is the killer and they end up going on a killing spree because of usually something that happened. The point is that the kids look up to the killer because he is the main character and they see that as being cool. A very sad example of this is the movie “Basketball Diaries” with Leonardo Decaprio. There is a scene where he shoots his classmates with a trench coat because he was bullied by them. After watching a documentary I learned that the kids from Colombine had got their ideas from this and that movie got in big trouble. They looked up to him because he was seen as a bad kid, getting revenge. These murder movies today have such a big impact on the way people act because of the fact that people like to follow these characters and be like them after the movie is over. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is another bad example of the movie affecting the mind because of the fact that it is one guy killing everyone he sees in sight. This makes people get more and more into it, especially when there is a sequel.

Speeding/Racing

Speeding is seen as one of the number one killers besides drunk driving. Speeding is usually seen in the ages of seventeen to twenty one. This is the point when a kid first gets their license and they begin to think they are very cool. They speed everywhere they go and when a police officer pulls them over, they are usually fined with a big ticket. They are getting more and more strict with this because there have been many deaths involving young kids and even innocent people. Usually people who tend to speed can get in a very serious accident even if it is at fifty miles per hour. You will never really see the ages of twenty five and over speed because they have been driving a while and are more mature and know what they are doing. These people are the smart people if they care about their lives and other lives. Speeding also goes under the topic of street racing which is a very bad crime. The difference between the two is that speeding you will get a ticket but street racing you will get arrested for. Both of them will put your lives and innocent other lives at risk. Street racing is very bad because these young kids who street race are not professional race car drivers and think they are, until they either crash or get arrested and then realize that they have been doing the wrong thing. In this video that is posted are some bad car accidents caught on film that show how bad speeding and racing can be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwW_wL4TwZg

Cell Phone Use While Driving

It has been researched that in the past couple of years the cell phone while driving rule has been getting more and more strict. This consist of both texting and driving and being on the cell phone while driving. They figured out an idea for talking on the phone rule and that was coming out with the Bluetooth. This made things a lot better and it was easier for people to concentrate on driving more. These two rules are mainly broken by teenagers who just seem to be getting their driver license. They will do things like not wear their seat belt, or speed, or talk or text while driving. We hear about bad accidents and fender benders every day with this happening. It is in the age group of seventeen to twenty one. This age group has it bad for all of those laws that were mentioned above. Age groups older usually tend to stick to these rules a lot better. The fine for a ticket for the use of a cell phone whether it is texting or being on it in some states can go up to three hundred dollar tickets. This is one of the big cause of accidents now days all over the country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPlnNaHGZY8

Graffiti

Graffiti is a crime that is known to be very serious if caught. It was researched that you can be doing up to a year in jail or the summons you will receive will be very expensive. This is popular with the ages of eleven to twenty three. The ages can be before eleven and after twenty three but the most common use is in between there. Graffiti is a crime that is most likely committed in very bad areas of the country. Places like Brooklyn, Camden, Trenton, The Bronx, Harlem, etc. Graffiti is usually spray painted designs that are most likely found on schools or on the back of stores on the wall. This is usually done late at night around two or three in the morning. Usually you will not see the Graffiti as good as the picture I posted but some people are surprised by the wellness of graffiti that has been done. This can be very hard to take off, usually it is painted over. This is something that is very bad to do but it is very hard to catch the person because they will most likely be wearing dark colors at night. These people who commit this crime are most likely bored and usually find it funny. Graffiti design is seen as offensive to some people because they do not like spray paint being painted over nice buildings or over something that was just built or painted. Some people will do that purposely because they see it as funny but then it is not funny to them when they get arrested or fined for it.