Introduction
The term delinquency is defined as behavior that against criminal code that is performed by someone who is not yet considered as an adult (Bartol & Bartol, 2012, p. 230). This term is often associated with juveniles and labeled as juvenile delinquency or also known as juvenile offendors (Bechtold & Cauffman, 2014).The term juvenile is often associated with the word adolescence. According to Kurtz, delinquency is explained in social context rather than medical context. Thus, a definition of a delinquent adolescents shows patterns of anti social behavior, aggression behavior towards people or animals, destruction of property, fraud or theft, and also violation of rules (Kurtz, 2002). From the DSM IV (2000), in order to be recognized to have these behaviors, one must have displayed the characteristics for 6- 12 months or more. Although there is no specific definition of age range for juveniles federally, because different states have different age range …show more content…
The basic instinctual behavior of human is to adapt to the environment. As adolescents who seeks for identity, they will try to adapt to the environment, which may also trigger the youth that lives near the high crimes area to be highly influenced by their environment (Boisvert, 2012). When they live in a high crime area, they might get easily influenced and tend to follow the majority trend and believe that the majority of the peers admire gang members and this admiration eventually leads them to join the gang. Because adolescents want to be accepted by the community, adolescents can be deceived or manipulated while they are trying to adapt. Peer encouragement also plays a huge role along with environment factor that leads to juvenile delinquency development. By nature, adolescence are not as capable of resisting the negative infiuences of their community as compared to adults (Boisvert, 2012)
The term delinquency is defined as behavior that against criminal code that is performed by someone who is not yet considered as an adult (Bartol & Bartol, 2012, p. 230). This term is often associated with juveniles and labeled as juvenile delinquency or also known as juvenile offendors (Bechtold & Cauffman, 2014).The term juvenile is often associated with the word adolescence. According to Kurtz, delinquency is explained in social context rather than medical context. Thus, a definition of a delinquent adolescents shows patterns of anti social behavior, aggression behavior towards people or animals, destruction of property, fraud or theft, and also violation of rules (Kurtz, 2002). From the DSM IV (2000), in order to be recognized to have these behaviors, one must have displayed the characteristics for 6- 12 months or more. Although there is no specific definition of age range for juveniles federally, because different states have different age range …show more content…
The basic instinctual behavior of human is to adapt to the environment. As adolescents who seeks for identity, they will try to adapt to the environment, which may also trigger the youth that lives near the high crimes area to be highly influenced by their environment (Boisvert, 2012). When they live in a high crime area, they might get easily influenced and tend to follow the majority trend and believe that the majority of the peers admire gang members and this admiration eventually leads them to join the gang. Because adolescents want to be accepted by the community, adolescents can be deceived or manipulated while they are trying to adapt. Peer encouragement also plays a huge role along with environment factor that leads to juvenile delinquency development. By nature, adolescence are not as capable of resisting the negative infiuences of their community as compared to adults (Boisvert, 2012)