Juvenile crimes have increased but the ages of these children have not. Some of the children are still in elementary schools and some are in junior high and high schools. The crimes that these children commit is wrong but why do they do what they do? Where does this anger or stupidity come from? In the 1998 article, Annette Fuentes, co-author of Women in the Global Factory and assistant director of New York Newsday, argues that if these questions are not asked and answered and all the public does is place blame on the children, don't care about the children, and lock up these children then, then worse is yet to come, and at that time there will be nothing that any one can do. Fuentes uses many examples and different types of evidences to support her conclusion, but is her argument effective?.
Right off the back Fuentes tells you her view on Juvenile crimes by using the example of three boys. Kipland Kinkel, Mitchell Johnson, and Andrew Golden, each of these three boys unloaded mini arsenals of guns at their classmate, and are responsible for killing some. By mentioning these boys Fuentes recognizes that these boys have done wrong, it is when she writes:.
[The three boys] fulfilled the worst fears about young people that now dominate the nation's adult consciousness [.] Forget that Mitchell sobbed next to his mother in court, or that [Andrew] learned to sling a shotgun from Dad and Grandpa the way many boys learn to swing a bar. "Let" em have it" was the sentiment, with catch phrases like "adult crime, adult time" (Fuentes, 574).
The reader knows that Fuentes understands that what these children have done was wrong and she knows how it has affected the public. She even states it in paragraph three, "The three boys are believed to have committed terrible deeds, no question." But now the reader knows that she does not like that these crimes have affected the public in a way that they do not care about the children at all.
