@Patty_Melt The question here is “Is there a connection between money and juvenile crimes?”. My answer is that sometimes there is a connection, and sometimes there is not.
And that in my actual experience as a juvenile, observing juveniles do crimes, most of those cases seem to me were not much about money, but were more about expressing reactions to the juveniles’ treatment by their parents and other authorities, expectations, and other youth acting out.
Money may have been involved in some cases (e.g. stealing money, or causing damages that ends up involving money for others to undo the damage), but the cases I observed were usually not, it seems to me, primarily about money.
e.g. not about money. Child feels powerless and emasculated by parental and school authority. Takes it out on others by vandalizing other people’s property and by bullying and assaulting others, prank calling 911, etc.
e.g. Money but not what it’s about: Child feels lack of attention, acknowledgement, affection, respect from parent who is well off but gives them paltry allowance and restricts candy consumption to “Candy Day” one piece per week. Child responds by stealing money from parent (wants attention – hopes parent cares enough to notice and talk to them about it, parent does notice but is too uninvolved to do anything about it). Child responds by using that money to buy candy, or just to shoplift candy, hoards candy, etc.