Many teen steal for power. Teens think they are powerful if they can take something from someone else. Teens think that if they have the power to steal maybe they have the power to commit larger or more violent crimes. Some teens may defend themselves by saying, "I only steal a CD once in awhile". My answer to that defense is, "What if everyone just stole a CD once I awhile how much more expensive do you think they would get? CDs are expensive now what if everyone just stole on once in awhile?" Power is very closely related to theft and how much stuff you can get. Nowadays money is power is you can steal for stuff and sell it for more money then you too have power over

That brings us to our last reason. Teens steal because of Attention. Teens may steal to get the attention of their parents if they don't pay attention to them at home. They might think that stealing something and getting busted with it would get their parents to get after them and show that they care about would the child does and want to take pride in them. Teens may also think that stealing something would earn them respect and make them feel like a big person. If a kid gets picked on every day and finally gets really mad and steals something very dear to the person picking on them then they have control over that person. They can decide weather to turn it back in or keep it or just destroy it out of hate for that person. Another reason maybe that teens steal because of pressure. If someone says, "Hey steal that nobody will know, just you and me man." Th

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