Dear Yserbius,
Lakewood has dozens of successful blue collar teens. And hundreds of successful blue collar young fathers. What you are projecting is completely false. This is not a kids at risk issue. Most of Lakewood’s at risk population is not at all involved in anything like this. Also, I don’t know why you think they teach Halacha (or Mishna) in Lakewood Mesivtos. It’s Gemara, Gemara, and Gemara. Three sedarim a day. Some places teach secular subjects for half of second seder.
How any of the above sheds any light on why kids who have been struggling socially since they were ten, would be caught up in a spiral of violence and property damage, is beyond the boundaries of logic. It is just prejudice. Bear in mind, That this is not nearly the first generation of kids to be raised in Lakewood. And it is loosely confined around a part of the communal infrastructure.