Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Tiener-kriminele

Dit is vir my hartseer wanneer 'n mens in die koerante lees van jongmense, tieners, wat roof, steel, aanrand, verkrag en vermoor.

Wat het verkeerd geloop?
                     Hoekom vermoor kinders hul ouers?
                                      Wat veroorsaak dat een kind dit doen en 10 ander nie?

By die lees van hierdie artikel het ek net weer besef, ons MOET ons Christelike waardes baie duidelik aan ons kinders oordra. Daar mag nie ruimte wees vir 'n as of 'n dalk nie. Jesus het self gesĂȘ jy is of vir Hom of teen Hom, geen grys gebiede nie.

Die artikel het ek in sy geheel uit die laaste 2012 uitgawe van Creation - die tydskrif uitgegee deur Creation.com - geneem.
 - uit Creation 34 (4) 2012

Juvenile Crime committed by Amoral Teenagers
   
     University of Cambridge researchers questioned teenagers about their attitudes to lawlessness and asked 
what criminal things they had done (cross-checking their answers with police records(. the research provided important insights into last year’s UK riots – why some young people went on a lawless rampage while others did not.
     The study found that teenagers who avoided crime did so not because they feared the consequences or lacked the chance, but because they saw it as wrong. conversely, teenagers with little sense of right and wrong were responsible for the vast majority of juvenile crimes. The lack of a sense of morality was the single most important factor in teenagers breaking the law.
      Professor Per-Olof Wikström who led the study observed, “The idea that opportunity makes the thief – that young people will inevitably commit crime in certain environments – runs counter to our findings.”
Academics around the world have heralded the research as “groundbreaking” and a “breakthrough” in understanding teenage crime. One US academic described it as “among the most significant works in criminology in decades”.
The 16-year-olds who have committed 86 crimes each, independent.co.uk, 24 June 2012