Juvenile delinquency

These young people are often called juvenile delinquents (the term juvenile meaning young person and delinquent meaning showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime). Juvenile delinquency is the violation of the criminal law by minors (Agnew, 4). Most of these criminal laws tend to be status offenses which would be legal if an adult status was achieved among these individuals. A common assumption of the adults that witness the growth of these juveniles is that they are listening to…

lot of experiences with juvenile delinquency. I visited the Regional Youth Detention Center (RYDC) and many of the youth I encountered had similar stories. Majority were African-American. There were males and females, separated of course. They all grew up in poverty and had relatives that had been incarcerated or were incarcerated at that time. They didn’t have any role models to look up to. They repeated what they saw. While I was spending all this time with these juveniles it really allowed me…

Dammer & Albanese (2010), youth are tried in juvenile courts (unless the crime is severe and violent) as long as they are under the age of 18. What is interesting about this chapter is the argument of maintaining the age distinction because of the slow cognitive development of minors. The argument explains that due to a slow cognitive development, minors are unable to understand the gravity of their delinquent acts; thus, permitting the intervention of juvenile courts to utilize rehabilitative…

offenses amongst juveniles achieved its highest peak in twenty years in 1996 and then declined 65% by 2014 (Juvenile arrest rates, n.d.). An investigation of 113 delinquent youth in a State confinement office found that 82 percent reported daily liquor and different drug usage, 14 percent used more than two times a week, and 4 percent reported irregular use prior to confinement (DeFrancesco, 1996). This research will discuss the link between juvenile justice and drug crime, juvenile crime that…

There are many theories that are associated with juvenile delinquency. Biological theory considers juvenile delinquent behavior to be predisposed and revolves around the idea that juveniles were born to be criminals. Cesear Lambrosso, who created the biological theory call positivism, states that children who grew up committing crimes inherited biochemical and genetic factors. Lambrosso also believed that people that commit crimes have certain facial features such as, a flattened nose and…

1) WHAT IS JUVENILE DELINQUENCY? Juvenile is a child who unlike an adult person having not attained prescribed age, cannot be held liable for his criminal acts. Delinquency is an act or conduct of a juvenile which is socially undesirable. Thus, Juvenile Delinquency means the failure of children to meet specific obligations, expected from them by the society . According to Cyril Burt, “Delinquency occurs in a child, when his social tendencies appear so grave that he becomes or ought to become…

The topic of juvenile offenders can open up many discussions when dealing with these cases as there are many factors that can turn young children into delinquents. Many of these cases can range from mild to serious charges that can seriously affect a child’s life. But many ask themselves what factors can help influence a child to act out and manifest in such negative behavior. Many of these factors can deal with their environment such as Abuse (child maltreatment or child neglect) can increased…

the system from juvenile to adulthood. Since the mid-1990's, the United States government, in collaboration with state and local officials, began to research the effectiveness of outreach programs and intervention strategies to reduce juvenile crime, which if past behavior is predicated on future behavior, would reduce adult crime. Many factors need to be taken into consideration when one speaks of curbing child delinquency. This paper will discuss the effectiveness of at-risk juvenile…

Juvenile delinquency is a significant issue that lacks understanding and research needs to be done to find possible factors, such as SES, that may play a role in the effectiveness of treatment outcomes. An important limitation of the existing research is the shortage…

main focus was to classify the probability of juveniles reoffending. Researchers refer to genetics being linked to recidivism among serious juvenile offenders opposed youths engaged in minor offences. Adolescences were placed in two separate activity groups structured versus unstructured. Youths in a community with organized activities displayed decreased incidents…