Young criminals often commit crimes to get status to get recognition and respect within their group – this is what Helmut Hirtenlehner, criminologist at Linz University. He does not believe in the reduction in the age of 14.
Young serial offenders do not come from the headlines – on Tuesday there was a quartet of minors in Wels in court who is said to have undertaken trips with stolen cars. The Linz University Professor Helmut Hirtenlehner investigated what the young people united in intensive perpetrators and presented on Tuesday evening during a lecture by the Upper Austrian Legal Society.
“You have a failure biography”
“You have a failure biography at all levels,” says the criminologist. There are bad figures at school, the teenagers rarely find jobs, and there are problems in the parents’ house, where succeeds often apply as an educational method. There are usually spontaneous crimes when the young people depend on such as -made people. “This is often about status management within your group. For you, violence is a means to generate recognition and appreciation.”
For house arrest, against recent punishment
The way out of crime? Language, education and work are the keys, according to the JKU professor. In “acute cases”, Hirtenlehner wishes that social pedagogical residential institutions can enforce house arrest for serial offenders. However, he does not believe in the much -discussed reduction of age. “Most do not take place with their criminal career in adulthood. If it succeeds in starting stable relationships, to set up a family.” A prison stay in teenage age would make this development difficult.
Source: Krone
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