According to Mental Health America, a child needs unconditional love, encouragement, and appropriate discipline from their family to be considered mentally healthy. Many juvenile crime occurrences evolve due to not acquiring these essential developmental necessities. The mental instability caused by the provisional absence of a child’s emotional needs must be accounted for when examining a juvenile’s desire or willingness to partake in criminal activity. Punishment does not address the root of the problem, but rather barely skims the surface. These mentally unstable youth need to be counseled and emotionally aided to truly elucidate the