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The Juvenile Crime Bomb Concern about so-called escalating juvenile crime is nothing new. In the 1950s there were reports about the mushrooming problems with youthful gangs in the big cities. In the 1960s we began to hear about a surge of juvenile crime in areas that had been regarded as virtually crime free. In the small towns, as well as the larger cities, youngsters were truanting from school, using drugs and committing crimes. In the 1970s and 1980s, juvenile court dockets became increasingly jammed with criminal cases. It is because of the media hype about the increasing number of Juvenile crimes in our courts today that I have chosen to write this assignment, hopefully in an attempt to show that this 'problem' is not new at all but has in fact been around for many years. The problem of juvenile crime is not only confined to the last fifty years. Governments in...

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