NewsWhore
03-28-2012, 03:10 PM
According to the Youth Public Policy Watchdog, juvenile delinquency is one of the biggest social problems facing Dominican society and they believe it is the lack of work that is leading young Dominicans into crime.
They warned that 30% of Dominicans between the ages of 15 and 24 neither study nor work which then leads them into delinquency.
They are called the neither-nor generation, and the report 'Diagnosing Dominican Youth 2012' says that more women (54%) than men (46%) neither work nor study and most of them are in the lowest social classes.
For this reason they are called the neither-nor youth. In the upper middle class there are only 6%, in the middle class it goes up to 31% and in the lower class 61%.
What is more, 74% of the neither-nor generation comes from homes with primary education and there are more in rural areas than in the city.
However, psychologist Luis Verges, director of the Center for Human Behavior says that unemployment is not a determining factor in young Dominicans committing crimes, saying that sometimes people make the simple link between poverty and unemployment with delinquency forgetting that indulging in criminal behavior is a decision and not everyone will make the decision to do it.
According to anthropologist Tahira Vargas, one of the main features of delinquent youth is the sale of drugs combined with robberies, as well as an unstable home life and the gangs that form in the barrios to protect themselves from violence from other gangs.
She warns that the main cause of delinquency is unemployment and the lack of a fixed income, as reported in El Dia.
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They warned that 30% of Dominicans between the ages of 15 and 24 neither study nor work which then leads them into delinquency.
They are called the neither-nor generation, and the report 'Diagnosing Dominican Youth 2012' says that more women (54%) than men (46%) neither work nor study and most of them are in the lowest social classes.
For this reason they are called the neither-nor youth. In the upper middle class there are only 6%, in the middle class it goes up to 31% and in the lower class 61%.
What is more, 74% of the neither-nor generation comes from homes with primary education and there are more in rural areas than in the city.
However, psychologist Luis Verges, director of the Center for Human Behavior says that unemployment is not a determining factor in young Dominicans committing crimes, saying that sometimes people make the simple link between poverty and unemployment with delinquency forgetting that indulging in criminal behavior is a decision and not everyone will make the decision to do it.
According to anthropologist Tahira Vargas, one of the main features of delinquent youth is the sale of drugs combined with robberies, as well as an unstable home life and the gangs that form in the barrios to protect themselves from violence from other gangs.
She warns that the main cause of delinquency is unemployment and the lack of a fixed income, as reported in El Dia.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)