Juvenile Delinquents Essay

A large number of juveniles currently have criminal records and or are incarcerated within juvenile correction facilities. Some of these juveniles come from homes that one would consider as being very dysfunctional and others come from homes were one would consider those homes were the parents would seem to have everything together. The one things that all these juveniles have in common would be that they all have parents and or guardians that took a part in the way that the child was raised. These parents and guardians are the ones who were there when the child was born and were the first individuals who took parent in the education process for the child. One would want to believe that outside influences may have turned the child into being a juvenile delinquent, but where does the responsibility lay when the parent is supposed to mold their child into productive members of society. This makes …show more content…
This study took place between the years of 1980 and 1985 and involved three hundred families who wanted to be involved. These families had boys who were between the grade level of 3rd and 10th. The data used variables which included information about the child’s youth independence, youth achievement, parent's authoritarianism, proportion of days of parent's absence, family criminality, parent's expressiveness, parent's conflict, home conduct problems, home hyperactivity, school disruptiveness, school competence score, self-reported delinquency, peer delinquency score, age of first theft, drugs and alcohol use (Loeber, 1998). This study was called the Screening of Youth at Risk, by Rolf Loeber, with the concentration of the Oregon