Juvenile justice is a slightly new notion from the transformations of laws associated to youthful offenders. Early implications for juveniles sought a rehabilitation approach; there was no room for punishment in the early juvenile justice system. The juvenile justice system that was implemented when most offenses were school yard fights was made to be ever changing and almost always reforming. Approximately 2 million juveniles are arrested every year for various crimes, bear in mind only half of juveniles crimes are thought to even be reported. (Ryan, Williams, & Courtney, 2013). Crimes committed by juvenile offenders account for over half of all arson arrests, around 40 percent of vandalism arrests, and one-third of burglary arrests (Juvenile
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To successfully implement intervention methods for at risk youth, prevention of later adult criminal activity, and assist in successful corrective programs, researchers and professionals in the juvenile justice system must disembark at a better perceptive of the factors that motivate delinquent behavior. It is from this standpoint that this current study will operate, as it has proven difficult to attribute juvenile delinquency to a single factor that invariably serves as a cause in all cases, to identify the most at risk situational factor for juvenile delinquent behavior to better implement successful intervention methods.
Previous research have attempted to intermittently describe juvenile delinquency as being ascribed by one motivational single casual factor, such as poverty, social disorganization in neighborhoods, problematic peer influences, …show more content…
Having successful intervention methods on multi-levels for the most reported high risk factors will also be a successful deterrence measure for at risk youth who yet have entered the juvenile justice system. The highest risk factors reported for juvenile delinquency are parental influence, social setting and environmental factors. Research has also proven the relationship of multiple risk factors being present as motivational factors in juvenile delinquency. Implementing intervention resources on a dimensional level, serving more than one motivation factor, will be successful at reducing repeat criminal activity. Implementing these resources in addition to at risk youth could also serve beneficial for the juvenile population as deterrence. The significance of the findings will serve very beneficial to the Juvenile Justice System who currently is processing millions of delinquent youth each year, who without intervention, will soon be counted in the adult criminal system. The results of this study could vastly change funding for more successful intervention resources within the Juvenile Justice system. Funding could be increased depending on results as well as a change of duties for all the braches of systems encompassed by the juvenile system. Depending if policy changes were altered, the community could benefit as a whole if juvenile crime reduced seeing as most crimes committed are against the
To successfully implement intervention methods for at risk youth, prevention of later adult criminal activity, and assist in successful corrective programs, researchers and professionals in the juvenile justice system must disembark at a better perceptive of the factors that motivate delinquent behavior. It is from this standpoint that this current study will operate, as it has proven difficult to attribute juvenile delinquency to a single factor that invariably serves as a cause in all cases, to identify the most at risk situational factor for juvenile delinquent behavior to better implement successful intervention methods.
Previous research have attempted to intermittently describe juvenile delinquency as being ascribed by one motivational single casual factor, such as poverty, social disorganization in neighborhoods, problematic peer influences, …show more content…
Having successful intervention methods on multi-levels for the most reported high risk factors will also be a successful deterrence measure for at risk youth who yet have entered the juvenile justice system. The highest risk factors reported for juvenile delinquency are parental influence, social setting and environmental factors. Research has also proven the relationship of multiple risk factors being present as motivational factors in juvenile delinquency. Implementing intervention resources on a dimensional level, serving more than one motivation factor, will be successful at reducing repeat criminal activity. Implementing these resources in addition to at risk youth could also serve beneficial for the juvenile population as deterrence. The significance of the findings will serve very beneficial to the Juvenile Justice System who currently is processing millions of delinquent youth each year, who without intervention, will soon be counted in the adult criminal system. The results of this study could vastly change funding for more successful intervention resources within the Juvenile Justice system. Funding could be increased depending on results as well as a change of duties for all the braches of systems encompassed by the juvenile system. Depending if policy changes were altered, the community could benefit as a whole if juvenile crime reduced seeing as most crimes committed are against the