Every year young adults are found involved in drug trafficking. When people think of criminal youth they will easily associate the crime made by an abandon kid without guidance, but sadly that is no longer the case. According to Gabriel Tarde in”Criminal Youth”, attending school can prevent delinquency but now a kid that is or isn’t in school can be involve in drug trafficking whatever their reasons are. Young adults starting from their early teens are earning thousands each month, some even self-employed selling drugs.
The article “Ohio police: Teen ran drug ring that grossed $20,000 a month” states a 17 year old student was under investigation since he was 15 years old for selling drugs outside school property. This 17 year old boy had his own employees and even demanded them that selling within school property was not allowed. According to officials, the 17 year old whose name wasn’t given because he is a juvenile, is an intelligent kid who wouldn’t be written down as a criminal. At the top of the drug chain were four older adults who basically hired teenagers to run their business. Are young adults in the line of illegal employment? It certainly seems like it is due to the fact that teenagers consume drugs on a daily basis. That brings another social problem that America is facing, consumption of drug use from young adults. Just like the cycle of life, this seems to be the cycle of crime influenced by social factors. Social factors being glorification of crime by the media, peer pressure, money, or lack of a descent environment. It seems to me this cycle of crime involves social factor influence, drug trafficking of elders and the youth, consumption of drugs, increase of crime, police enforcement (jobs for cops, jail time, juvenile programs) and lastly the affect it has on the economy.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/17/justice/ohio-teen-drug-bust/index.html
