In the United States there has been an increase of delinquent cases. According to the National Institute of Justice, there were more than 1.3 million delinquency cases recorded in 2012. Delinquent crimes have brought concern to states around the nation for years and states have started the search for the cause of this activity. After extensive research there were several factors that go into the cause of delinquent behavior including neighborhoods, associates of the delinquent, and lack of parenting. Courts and legislature were alarmed by the amount of delinquent cases they were seeing so they started creating laws that held parents accountable (Sage and Ruyter). These laws were created often times after a tragedy such as a school shooting
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They are used to “hold parents legally responsible for crimes committed by their children. Criminal parental responsibility laws are based on a number of theories” (Clarke). The theory behind these laws is that parents have a legal duty to prevent their children from harming anyone or from breaking any laws. The intent of these laws is to lower delinquent activities if parents themselves can get punished for not monitoring their children’s illegal activity (Sage and Ruyter). Although there is good intent to criminal parental responsibility laws several don’t agree with them even though they are helping …show more content…
This isn’t always the parent’s fault which is why social workers go into the home and determine whether or not the parent is doing everything possible to best raise a child. Many parents argue that if a child gets in trouble on their own it has no reflection on the parent since they were not partaking in the crime at all. In few juvenile delinquent cases, do parents actually partake in the criminal act, meaning they don’t have criminal intent (Sage and Ruyter). “But interestingly, criminal parental responsibility laws do not seem to be motivated by the belief that parents intended the delinquent behaviour of their children to happen” (Sage and
They are used to “hold parents legally responsible for crimes committed by their children. Criminal parental responsibility laws are based on a number of theories” (Clarke). The theory behind these laws is that parents have a legal duty to prevent their children from harming anyone or from breaking any laws. The intent of these laws is to lower delinquent activities if parents themselves can get punished for not monitoring their children’s illegal activity (Sage and Ruyter). Although there is good intent to criminal parental responsibility laws several don’t agree with them even though they are helping …show more content…
This isn’t always the parent’s fault which is why social workers go into the home and determine whether or not the parent is doing everything possible to best raise a child. Many parents argue that if a child gets in trouble on their own it has no reflection on the parent since they were not partaking in the crime at all. In few juvenile delinquent cases, do parents actually partake in the criminal act, meaning they don’t have criminal intent (Sage and Ruyter). “But interestingly, criminal parental responsibility laws do not seem to be motivated by the belief that parents intended the delinquent behaviour of their children to happen” (Sage and