Outline Structure

Background:
1. According to the Washington Post more than 349,000 students have experienced gun
violence since Columbine in 1999.
2. The department of education concluded that school shooters ranged in age from 11 to 21.

Thesis statement:
Teenager criminals should not be treated as adults because the majority of them have
suffered from child maltreatment, poor parenting skills and have been victims of hate in
schools.

Topic Sentence P1
The majority of them have suffered from child maltreatment.

Supporting ideas

1. Assaults of any type of vandalism are often associated with physical and verbal abuse at
home.
2. Teenager maltreatment affects physical and emotional health.
3. Male teenagers are more likely to exhibit their behavioral problems as aggression and
delinquency.

Topic Sentence P2
Poor parenting skills

Supporting ideas

1 Drug addict parents make themselves absent.

2 Parents became parents in a teenager age.
3 Teenagers might not have financial support from their parents.

Topic Sentence P3
They have been victims of hater in schools.

Supporting ideas
1 Teenagers who suffered bullying in childhood ended up in prison.
2 They are in a risk of suffer depression, being violent.
3 Some of them hold a lot of resentment and want revenge.

Write your concluding statement

Teenager criminals have passed through a lot of hard moments, they have been
physical, verbal and sexually abused, some of them had their parents absent and they
were also victims of bullying.