It now seems early childhood education has an emphasis on prevention of delinquency among adolescents. This, however, is not the only focus, but rather an addition to a normal teaching structure or method. According to an article I read called “Child Delinquency: Early Intervention and Prevention,” “The number of child delinquents brought before American courts increased by a third between 1990 and 2000,” which conveyed the need for prevention programs. Since then prevention programs have been implemented, but further funding is needed to maintain these programs.
Teachers are often the ones correcting behavior of adolescents. Children spend a good portion of their life under the supervision of teachers. Parents play the most important role in the development of children and their behavior.
If parents do not correct problem behavior as it occurs, it’s harder for the teachers to do their jobs. It’s not in an education provider’s job description to raise others’ children.
More funding to create prevention programs and maintain them would be beneficial to parents, children, teachers and society. Programs such as parenting programs, which promote effective parenting, bullying prevention programs, after school recreation programs, mentoring programs, comprehensive community interventions, conflict resolution programs and many more aid in the prevention of adolescent delinquency.
Programs such as these provide a positive atmosphere and give children less time to commit delinquent acts. More funding for such programs would provide the opportunity for further research and would reduce future crime rates.