Secondly, traumatic events at a young age can lead to youth crime. This is because when children witness something horrific it sticks with them, subconsciously it could be the reason for their deviant behavior. Scoping neighbourhood, traumatic events can happen at any time. Looking not only at the neighbourhood, but also a school environment painful events can occur and these events can transpire the delinquency in the future. For example, taking into consideration school shootings can really damage a person in the way they think, act, and speak to others. Applying the strain theory to support this hypothesis, it can be understood that the core idea of general strain theory is that, “people who experience strain or stress become distressed
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For example, single parent children are likely to engage in criminal behaviour. Divorced children are more likely to join criminal acts because the single parent is too busy working to provide for their children they don’t often know what’s going on in the lives of their children. Also, studies show that boys from a divorced home are more angry and violent whereas girls are also angry and tend to engage in criminal activities for attention. We can apply the broken homes hypothesis, this explains that the common help proposition that children from divorced and single parent families are more likely to be delinquent. According to sociologist Lenore Weitzman, “divorced women get by on about 64% of the income they had during the marriage,” (source). For their children, this translates into less money for school activities, clothes, opportunities for traveling and learning, day care and sometimes food. Again, stressing the strain theory, both males and females handle stress differently. Depending on the severity of the divorce, the child might or might not act out in an aberrant way. Parental divorce is an indicator of liability to, rather than as a cause of, antisocial …show more content…
Poverty is an important factor to child rearing methods. Children who grow up in poverty are usually from a neighbourhood that has other lower-class families. Seeing other children struggling to get by and get food, clothing or any toys puts a strain on you. Impoverished children seeing other children with more benefits, better clothing, and full meal has a psychological impact. Although, there are other low-class citizens around, their perception is drawn to the fancier things that they cannot afford or ever hope to have. We can apply the subculture theory to support this hypothesis. Subculture theory states that, “delinquent behaviour is a reaction formation to the frustration of strain, of being lower class in a middle class world,” (source). A lot of immigrants struggle with this when they come to Canada. These immigrants don’t have proper jobs and are doing what they can to support their families, however they cannot provide a middleclass life to their children, which children don’t understand and question why they cannot have the same benefits as the children around
For example, single parent children are likely to engage in criminal behaviour. Divorced children are more likely to join criminal acts because the single parent is too busy working to provide for their children they don’t often know what’s going on in the lives of their children. Also, studies show that boys from a divorced home are more angry and violent whereas girls are also angry and tend to engage in criminal activities for attention. We can apply the broken homes hypothesis, this explains that the common help proposition that children from divorced and single parent families are more likely to be delinquent. According to sociologist Lenore Weitzman, “divorced women get by on about 64% of the income they had during the marriage,” (source). For their children, this translates into less money for school activities, clothes, opportunities for traveling and learning, day care and sometimes food. Again, stressing the strain theory, both males and females handle stress differently. Depending on the severity of the divorce, the child might or might not act out in an aberrant way. Parental divorce is an indicator of liability to, rather than as a cause of, antisocial …show more content…
Poverty is an important factor to child rearing methods. Children who grow up in poverty are usually from a neighbourhood that has other lower-class families. Seeing other children struggling to get by and get food, clothing or any toys puts a strain on you. Impoverished children seeing other children with more benefits, better clothing, and full meal has a psychological impact. Although, there are other low-class citizens around, their perception is drawn to the fancier things that they cannot afford or ever hope to have. We can apply the subculture theory to support this hypothesis. Subculture theory states that, “delinquent behaviour is a reaction formation to the frustration of strain, of being lower class in a middle class world,” (source). A lot of immigrants struggle with this when they come to Canada. These immigrants don’t have proper jobs and are doing what they can to support their families, however they cannot provide a middleclass life to their children, which children don’t understand and question why they cannot have the same benefits as the children around