Remember, also, love covers sin.  Read Gen 9:20 to the end of the chapter.  Noah's sons covered his shame.  God's will for us is not to condemn or expose our brother's sins, but to cover and restore.  We are not to approve of sin or glorify it, but to help our family in Christ to repent and move forward.  Hashing out the past and assigning blame is not helpful. Encouragement, positive suggestions, prayer, and forward movement -- that is what God has for us.  I just felt led to share that with you, may it work in your heart as God intended.  And God bless you for the compassion that you have on your loved ones.

Wolves are cool.

Advice, here's my two cents, and many will disagree. Family problems should be handled withing the family, whenever possible.  Your his cousin, so you're related, yes?  First, pray!  pray for wisdom and guidance and for God to tell you what to say.  Then reach out to adults in your family.  No, don't get sucked in, don't get pulled under; just prayerfully offer to help in whatever way you can.  At your age, praying is what you can do.  My grandson was 6 years old when he prayed for his friend's injured eye to be healed, and it was.  Prayer works, and your prayers are working now.  Sometimes with relationships we have to be patient a long time to see results.  Maybe that's because relationships are the only things in our lives that we will take with us to heaven.

Any time you spend praying for your cousin is time invested in eternity.  And any encouragement you try to give him or other family members is measured out by God and blessed to do His work.  A kind word, time spent together, a phone call just to say Hi, those all count on God's scale.  Don't try to change people, only God can do that, just love.  Love is the more excellent way, and it works.  It works on the eternal time scale. 

If there is a mutual adult relative who is a Christian, maybe you could approach them and pray together for your cousin.  Maybe this adult might be moved to action as a result of prayer, then again, maybe not.  But you pray, on keep on praying. 

God bless you.

At your age I'm not sure you can do much more than try not to get sucked into the middle of a bad situation. I have never been arrested myself, but I can identify with your cousin's situation because my own youth was far from perfect. (I'm just saying I was no angel when I was a teen)

You asked for advice so here's mine: Go find an adult to help out. Don't try to play referee between your cousin and his mom. I'm not sure of his situation so it's hard to make a suggestion of where to go. Social services, the police (they do help as well as arrest), perhaps a pastor or a youth minister??? A teacher at school? There must be adults around you that can be convinced to help.

I wouldn't say that prayer isn't helping. Remember, God's timing is always perfect, it just doesn't always seem that way to us. God answers our prayers in His time, and is His way. We often get impatient and want an immediate asnwer but God sees things that we don't. Trust in Him and keep praying. Scripture says that we should pray without ceasing. God loves to be BUGGED about our needs/desires, so keep bugging him!!!

May I also point out that it is possible that God led you here in response to your prayers. He may be working on an answer right now... Don't give up on God, remember that he makes all things good for those who love Him.

I will pray for you and your cousin, this way we can both bug God about the problem together!