Cindy Sanchez
Juvenile Justice System
C. Drew
9/22/15
Mental Health and Violent Offending Juvenile delinquents, minors who commits acts that violate the law. Not all juveniles are prone to perpetrate crimes. There are many studies towards why adolescents commit crimes. Most criminologists conclude that theories and mental health can be excellent explanations towards offending. Choice theory, trait theory and mental health issues are superb studies to further understand the causes of juvenile delinquency. Most of the time, one assumes that people have free will to choose what to do. For example, one usually chooses the way they would like to behave. Since teenagers are more rebellious, some will pick to behave badly, while others designate …show more content…
Mental disorders and crime backs up the trait theory. It can be triggered from previous mishaps such as dysfunctional family environments or abusive parents. Which reinforces the development and the perseverance of mental disorders. Some delinquents display gestures of psychological abnormalities, such as schizophrenia, paranoia, and obsessive behaviors (Sigel & Walsh, 83). Offenders can suffer from mood/behavior disorders, depression, anti socialism, and narcissism. The mental health and violent offending article conducted about 11 studies that focused on the relationship between mental illness and deprivation. Those who conducted the study concluded that offenders who are diagnosed with a mental illness issue were about 100 percent of all study subjects. The commonly diagnoses that offenders had was antisocial personality disorder. Boots and Wareham (10) established “It appeared that serious psychiatric dysfunction was not common overall, with most studies in the analysis showing low prevalence rates for disorders such as schizophrenia (approximately 7%), manic depression (2-3%), and major depressive disorder (7%).” Thus, the results of the studies established that certain diagnoses were low, they are still an outcome of mental illness and crime. While most of the studies are conducted on adults, the association between mental disturbance and juvenile delinquency is unresolved. It is apparent that psychologically troubled youth perform poorly in school and such failure leads to crime activity. Also troubled youth that have conflicted social relations make them prone to perform delinquency. Teens who have suffered from child abuse are likely to have mental agony and will commit criminal acts. And the commonly known effect of it all, which is growing up in bad
Juvenile Justice System
C. Drew
9/22/15
Mental Health and Violent Offending Juvenile delinquents, minors who commits acts that violate the law. Not all juveniles are prone to perpetrate crimes. There are many studies towards why adolescents commit crimes. Most criminologists conclude that theories and mental health can be excellent explanations towards offending. Choice theory, trait theory and mental health issues are superb studies to further understand the causes of juvenile delinquency. Most of the time, one assumes that people have free will to choose what to do. For example, one usually chooses the way they would like to behave. Since teenagers are more rebellious, some will pick to behave badly, while others designate …show more content…
Mental disorders and crime backs up the trait theory. It can be triggered from previous mishaps such as dysfunctional family environments or abusive parents. Which reinforces the development and the perseverance of mental disorders. Some delinquents display gestures of psychological abnormalities, such as schizophrenia, paranoia, and obsessive behaviors (Sigel & Walsh, 83). Offenders can suffer from mood/behavior disorders, depression, anti socialism, and narcissism. The mental health and violent offending article conducted about 11 studies that focused on the relationship between mental illness and deprivation. Those who conducted the study concluded that offenders who are diagnosed with a mental illness issue were about 100 percent of all study subjects. The commonly diagnoses that offenders had was antisocial personality disorder. Boots and Wareham (10) established “It appeared that serious psychiatric dysfunction was not common overall, with most studies in the analysis showing low prevalence rates for disorders such as schizophrenia (approximately 7%), manic depression (2-3%), and major depressive disorder (7%).” Thus, the results of the studies established that certain diagnoses were low, they are still an outcome of mental illness and crime. While most of the studies are conducted on adults, the association between mental disturbance and juvenile delinquency is unresolved. It is apparent that psychologically troubled youth perform poorly in school and such failure leads to crime activity. Also troubled youth that have conflicted social relations make them prone to perform delinquency. Teens who have suffered from child abuse are likely to have mental agony and will commit criminal acts. And the commonly known effect of it all, which is growing up in bad