Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife Eleanor Glueck, a research criminologist at the Law School have been innovative in their research on Criminology. They have presented their findings in a report entitled "Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency," and later was abridged in their book "Delinquents in the Making". This approach is to infiltrate into the delinquency and crime and to ascertain the ways of averting the Criminal and not the crime.…
Grove and Robert D. Crutchfield wrote an article called The Family and Juvenile Delinquency. This article focused on the role marriage plays in the marital partners but more importantly and more related to my research question, the crucial role a firm and strong marriage plays in the lives of children, and how the deviant traits of the family can be related to juvenile delinquency. The effects of family relationships were less strong for boys and more strong for girls. “White boys are 19% more likely to misbehave than black boys. 30% of the boys involved in this study were delinquents and so were 20% of the girls studied.…
Bernburg conducted research into a group of children in both seventh and eighth grade. They recorded individual delinquency as well as the delinquency of their peers. They wanted to find out whether or not there was an actual connection between formal justice system intervention and consequent delinquency (Bernburg, 2006). He collected data through private interviews at different times throughout the study. He established different variables like race, gender, initial levels of delinquency, family impoverishment and substance abuse, and concluded “juvenile justice intervention is significantly associated with serious delinquency in a subsequent period” (Bernberg,…
This study also has a goal to test the extent of explanatory power that all theories, including the containment theory, have for general types of delinquency in all categories of race and sex. Previous studies on this theory have played a major role in allowing us to furthermore be able to understand the relationships between social learning, social control, delinquency, and containment. Although they have made a lot of contributions, they have only showed a part of this phenomenon. Research made by Jensen in 2011 showed that the relationships between self-evaluations and delinquency were different among whites and blacks. Research also made by Hindelang et al suggested that blacks and whites differed significantly in the seriousness of the types of offenses they committed.…
Furthermore, Sampson and Laub (1992; 1993; 2003) theory is more a sociological approach, thus developing the Age-graded Theory. The objective was to be able to investigate “whether (and why) adolescent delinquents persist or desist from crime as they age across the adult life course” (Sampson and Laub, 2005, p.12.) They established and developed this theory using some of the most captivating data. Sampson and Laub reconstructed the data from the previous criminologist Sheldon and Eleanor Gluck and tailed up with the original respondents who were then around 70 years old (Newburn, p.869) after being studied on through their adolescences life. The delinquent boys ended up in trouble with the law for the rest of their lives.…
Adolescents experience strain and learn bad behaviors, which exposes them to deviant acts that can be avoided. Below, through my personal experiences, I will describe how each theory explains or contradicts the delinquent behavior, and list the similarities and differences associated with Social Learning and Strain theory. "Social Learning theory hypothesizes that delinquency is learned through close relationships with others; asserts that children are born good and learn to be bad from others." (Siegel, & Welsh, (2018). p. 161)…
There are several trends that shape delinquency, from the slides and text the larger ideas are: Gangs, Economy/Jobs, Teen population, Media, Juvenile Justice policy, and availability of drugs and firearms. Gangs are often the culprit in many places for delinquency because gangs are involved in various illegal activities. Children are soon brought in and raised up to belong to the gang where they become apart of something bigger than them. Gangs often times involve their youth followers in drug use, firearm related crimes, and various activities that are unlawful. Availability of a firearm alone is enough to allow a troubled youth a way to commit a crime with a higher chances of receiving what they want opposed to another means.…
13.5) There are two types of delinquency life-course-persistent and adolescent-limited. ¾’s of adolescents engage in at least one criminal act before age 20. There are minor crimes such as underage drinking or serious crimes such as assault. Multiple crimes committed over time may lead to more major crimes later on.…
Are the Social Structure Theories the Explanation for Juvenile Delinquency? Introduction Social Structure Theories are used in sociology to explain delinquency through socioeconomic conditions and cultural values (Siegal, 132). Within the Social Structure Theory, lies three different “sub-theories”: Social Disorganization Theory, Strain Theory and Cultural Deviance Theory that are separate yet weave their way around each other. This paper will discuss their history, studies done along with the results, and the effective programs that were created for and or about these theories.…
Throughout this paper I will be discussing the use of Moffitt’s developmental theory within the article Onset of Offending and Life Course of Men Convicted of Murder. First I will be defining Moffitt’s developmental theory and explaining the two types of offenders presented in this theory. Following this definition I will then examine the authors’ use of this theory by summarizing, addressing any differences in understanding as well as whether I believe the theory to have been appropriately used or not. To draw this paper to a close I will be comparing the findings presented in the article to the rest of findings from this theory as well as evaluating the goodness of the theory as a whole.…
This trend is in coinciding correlation with delinquent behavior and criminal activities. The Social Disorganization…
Life-course persistent offenders, who account for roughly 4-9% of the population, begin offending early in life and persistently engage in criminal anti-social activities over the duration of the life course (Greenberg, 2006). Moffitt contends that the causal factors for LCPs antisocial behaviours stem from early childhood and neuropsychological deficiencies as a result of a child’s disadvantaged position in a typically criminogenic environment. (Moffitt,…
Juvenile delinquency is a complicated and complex issue with a multitude of underlying causes and reasoning behind why it happens. Years of research and studies have taken place across generations to aid in a better understanding what factors contribute to it and what should be done to prevent it. Developmental Theory takes aim at the life cycle of juvenile delinquency from beginning to the epilogue. Life Course Theory lends reason to the idea that a combination of personality and environment shape and child into a delinquent. Latent trait points to physiology reasons.…
In 1993 Moffitt reported that “the increased rate of delinquency in adolescence indicated that delinquent behavior was a normative part of development, which peaked in the teen years and then desisted, however there was a small number of delinquents that continued to offend into adulthood and developed a pathological personality”(Moore, 2011, P.235). Several studies found that children with antisocial behaviors later turn into delinquents. They have also found that detecting psychopathology early can stable and…
This paper is going to compare and contrast the theories put forth from Terrie Moffitt (Dual Pathway Developmental Theory) and from Sampson & Laub (Age-Graded Developmental Theory). First we will look at what is similar in the two theories. They both are longitudinal studies, meaning that they take place with a fixed group of subjects who are monitored and data is gathered on for a specific time. The Dual Pathway Developmental Theory used data that was collected from New Zeland over the last forty-one years, and is still on going.…