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Youth and crime: Blame it all on absentee parents and poverty Whether the youth indulge in crime or not, experts say, is dependent on their upbringing and parent-child relationships. This means young people who, during their childhood, are exposed to harsh and exploitative environments are likely to develop criminal tendencies.Parental inadequacy, they say, is a major cause of youth crime, and when parents fail to provide their children with the needed guidance and love, the effect lasts well into adulthood, affecting them both emotionally and physically.If a parent is violent or engages in habits that may cause conflict in the family, the child will tend to copy that behaviour, thinking that since it is practised by the parent, it is what the society expects of them.Experts also cite communication breakdown within the family as a contributory factor to youth misdemeanours. When the child has no-one to consult within the family about their problems, they will turn to their friends, who are likely to lead them astray rather than guide them along the narrow path.In 2008, Carolyne W Gategi, a social worker currently attached to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Comission, reported in a study, Youth and Crime, that most young people who engage in crime, especially in Nairobi, are brought up in slums where they are influenced by peer pressure. The youth in these areas do not have adequate education or training (and) thus have no prospects for meaningful employment, wrote Ms Gategi. The report added that Nairobi, at the time of the study, had the highest incidence of crime in Kenya. This may be attributed to the fact that Nairobi is the capital city and nerve centre of economic activities in the country.And, given the harsh economic environments most young people in these zones grow up in, the desire to build a better life for themselves, to escape the poverty and lawlessness that defines life in most unplanned settlements, almost always drives them head-on into the same things they are trying to escape from: crime and general defiance of the law.Ms Gategi noted in her report that Nairobis Eastleigh area is the hub of lawlessness in the region, therefore parents bringing up their children in this neighbourhood are best advised to be on the lookout for tell-tale signs of deviate behaviour.Here, she wrote, both legal and illegal businesses merge in a complex way. The shopping area itself, which is widely quoted as having the busiest commercial avenue in Nairobi, attracts middle and upper-class shoppers from around the city and other parts of the country.This area stocks upscale brands of fashion, electronics, and other consumer items, which are purchased at 20 to 30 per cent below the price in other places. To reduce incidents of crime in Nairobi, and especially the Eastlands area, Ms Gategi recommended a deliberate effort to tackle youth unemployment across the country.