Nick Berry-At Risk Youth

Background (What circumstances necessitate Congressional action?/What happened to the Bill in Congress? Did it pass, or die in committee?):
Do to the Growing number of youth delinquencies and gang related violence, they wanted to pass this bill to help keep youths away from the gangs. it Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to assist the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. This needs to have congressional action because of the federal crimes such as the gangs and the killings that relate to them. This bill has not yet passed but it has been Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.






Goal of Action: The goal is to keep youths away from juvenile delinquency and also criminal street gang activity. and to ensure that youths lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-abiding lives.



Specifics/Means of Goal: They are going to try and help At Risk Youths by better opportunities, Mentoring, intervention and support. The bill is also going to (1) assess and develop standards and evidence-based practices to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity; and (2) collecting data in designated geographic areas to assess the needs and existing resources for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention.






Type of Power (Is Congress acting according to an expressed or implied power? If it is implied, what expressed power grants it? - Check the Constitution to figure this out!):
This is an Implied power because in the elastic clause it states that the government should do all the necessary and proper things to improve and at risk youths life.






Analysis (Do you think Congress should do this according to its Constitutional powers?)
Yes, Because their should be help from the government. Because kids usually do what they are surrounded by so if the parents are not able to help then maybe the government can help them, through mentoring and other opportunities to keep them away from gangs.