By Juliana Francis
Who is a youth?
A person, who has reached puberty, progressing towards adulthood.
What is a crime?
An action or negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state, and that is legally prohibited. An act that is morally, socially and legally wrong.
What does ‘youths in crime’ mean?
This means youngsters, who get involved in activities that are injurious to them, their families and societies.
Crime among youths cuts across many boundaries; it has no boundary, colour, gender, ethnicity, religion or social stratifications.
The changing world of youths, crime and its effect of crime on society is a matter that should be importance to us as students/young people. Crime is dynamic, ever changing, thus many hands are needed to render assistance in checking it before it swallows us. The agile hands and brains of youths are vitally needed.
The Crime Tree
Crime is like a tree, it has many branches. Each of this branch has power to sprout deadly fruits. In fact, such fruits are bitter pills that will cause acute indigestion for anyone that accepts to suckle them.
What are some of those branches of crime?
- Cultism
- Cyber-crimes fraud
- Street fights
- Voodoo
- Rituals
- Murders
- Drug abuse
- Drug trafficking
- Violence
- Lies
- Robbery
- Stealing
- Human trafficking
- Rape
- Prostitution
- Thuggery
We, as youths, cannot pretend that the number of youths embracing crimes does not concern us. The world indeed is a global village; a stone thrown into the market, can hit anyone. Our security agencies can’t do it alone.
What I’m doing right now, is my contribution towards curtailing a country, which is quickly being overtaken by crimes.
What is your own contribution?
We know that most people believed that ways of checking crime is to arrest, which is actually the reactive method. But we should begin to seek to use the proactive and preventive method in checking crime, especially cultism.
Cultism appears to be overwhelming our society; even security agents seem to be at their wit ends. Catching our younger generation before they take to further crime today is our watchword.
JULIANA EBERE FRANCIS IS THE FOUNDER, YOUTHS AGAINST CRIME
(YOUTHLENS.COM)
08023684528.
First Published 2018
