> You can't fix the crop of humans that is currently broken.
This is bullshit. Below is a link to a memoir by Ishmael Beah. The dude was a child soldier at 12 years old, was rescued by UNICEF, and rehabilitated. He graduated from college, published several books, and has spoken at the UN. Im very much all for not creating new sociopaths but let us not act like the only way to deal with broken among us is to put a bullet in their heads.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0374531269
A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) by Ishmael Beah. Firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone (1990s) The last few pages, I just read one per day, an effort to delay the inevitable ending of a good book. *edited link from wiki to amazon
If anyone wants a perspective of what it was like to be a child growing up during the civil war in Sierra Leone check out the book "A Long Way Gone." Crazy crazy stuff you don't hear much about.
I have a quick trigger finger on Amazon... haha. Have you read A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah - pretty amazing story.
A long way gone: memoirs of a boy Solider https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0374531269
I HIGHLY recommend reading it. I absolutely loved it, such a great story but so horrible to have happened
We read a child soldier memoir in high school. It's not really academic, but if your thesis is more personal or incorporates anecdotal evidence, it might be worth checking out: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0374531269
You probably should read some literature on child soldiers and how they are 'conscripted' and how they are forced to fight in wars. I recommend A Long Way Gone (a memoir of Ishmael Beah an ex-child soldier) and They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children (by Romeo Dellaire).
One method is to use their culture against them, as in they will force you to kill your mother or else they will kill all you or your brother. Then they are taught to believe they are not wanted anymore and they will be killed by their own tribe. This has parallels with gang recruitment. Once this stuff happens in order to reverse this behaviour you need to retrain the individual and attempt to reverse the mindset that they are soldiers or the like and not locking them up in prison.
Memoir of a coke sniffing, AK toting, child soldier in Africa.