“The number of under-18s convicted or cautioned for violent crime rose from 17,590 to 24,102 – a 37% increase” Telegraph, Leapmen. Youth crime has increased dramatically over the years, as can be seen from the statistics reported above in 2008 in the Telegraph newspaper. Youth crime has been a problem for a long time; however it is becoming a major problem as the situation only gets worse with the number of young people committing crimes and the severity of youth crime is increasing. Criminologists and sociologists try to find out the main reason why children engage in crime and have managed to come up with some theories and good reasons why many children should consider committing crime. (Source 1) Many criminologists believe that criminals are not created overnight; instead it takes time for a person to become a criminal. These criminologists suggest that normal people go through a long process and over the years they accept crime and then become criminals. These theories suggest that every person goes through many changes in life and their perception of life changes with them, this change is sometimes for the worse. Statistics have shown that young people now tend to commit more crimes than adults, this is because many events in the lives of these young people end up changing them for the better, however not everyone undergoes these changes. Therefore many people who were deviant in youth tend to be much worse in adulthood. Moffitt (1993) suggested that antisocial behavior and aggression can be detected early in people's lives. Moffitt suggests that by identifying these problems early society can help these children and reduce this type of behavior and c...... middle of paper ...... mutual hatred considering they are always being separated. This can then lead to racism and other violent acts between different groups. (Source 10) David Hargreaves (1967) had carried out research in a boys' secondary school and had discovered that the pupils' attitude towards school was less influenced by their background and more by streaming, he had discovered that the students placed in lower bands they lost enthusiasm and enthusiasm for learning as the children in the lower bracket considered themselves failures. Interactionists support the idea of ​​streaming and banding, however they think the way teachers separate children is often inaccurate and unfair. Interactionists may be right that teachers are unfair, however their findings were inaccurate since these sociologists only saw what was happening in some schools and not in the entire world. (Source 11)