NCJ Number
196719
Date Published
December 1996
Length
190 pages
Annotation
This book takes a look at the relationship between the concept and expression “just a stupid kid,” a sociological misnomer, used by society regarding immaturity and adolescence, low self-esteem, and adverse human behaviors such as alcohol and drug habits and addictions in society’s youth.
Abstract
The inspiration behind crimes committed is most of the time alcohol and drugs mixed with low self-esteem. The alcohol and drugs are seen as the catalyst motivating anger within criminals suffering from life-long low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority, and inferior feelings in people are rooted in inferior connotations of childhood and immaturity. This is the general theme behind this book. The first five to six chapters of the book detail demeaning and degrading treatment children experience in life, not from parents typically. These chapters illustrate that children are demeaned daily and perpetually through primarily obscure means such as body language. Subsequent chapters discuss resulting behavior that evolves, such as alcohol and drug addiction. In the final chapters, the book presents some solutions through public awareness campaigns through the mass media and through changes in our sociological attitudes and ideologies. A simple relationship is drawn between sociological inferior connotations and attitudes towards children, resulting in low self-esteem and adverse human behaviors that become the end product, such as alcohol and drug habits and addictions. Bibliography