Risk factors relating to criminology are influences that can cause an individual to be more likely to commit offending behaviours compared to others. There are many factors that can lead to juvenile delinquency. Key risk factors include social influences such as family and peers or communal influences such as school policies and the area that they live in. However how much of these of these risk factors actually lead to offending behaviour in adolescence and what risk factor may have the biggest…
This assignment gives the advantages of the justice approach and welfare treatment of young suspects and offenders within the United Kingdom. Applying the full force of the criminal law to children and youths has for some time been held to be questionable. In the United Kingdom, the period of criminal obligation is ten in England and Wales (in Scotland it is eight, inferable from a fairly diverse adolescent equity system). This is strangely low compared to where the rest of Europe are on the…
In the early 1920s to 1930s society has undergone a lot of changes, which was evident that from a sociological standpoint a lot of communities have been effected due industrialization, predominantly poverty and other social factors. Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay who were employed and researcher at the University of Chicago decided to research crime as initially suggested by other scholars’ who provided a basis for understanding the social roots of crime. Shockingly, the research conducted…
In today sociology, Labeling theory is the idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what the people do as from how others respond to those actions. The labeling theory stresses the relativity of the deviance, meaning that people may define the same behavior in any number of ways. With most commonly associated with the sociology of crime and deviance, where it used to point out how social processes of labeling and treating someone as criminal deviant fosters deviant behavior.…
punishments, as defined by the textbook, are ‘community based sanctions that range from intensive probation supervision to no secure residential programs.’ Intermediate punishments are programs that require more supervision and punishments for a juvenile and are used as stricter punishments for them. Because of the increase in supervision, electronic monitoring devices are often used as part of a juvenile’s punishment, whether it be when they leave their house, are in public, or at all times.…
Juveniles who have been tried as an adult, it is a tough and hard punishment to the adolescent offender. Life is priceless and we live it only once, nevertheless, what we do with it is to our own freedom of choice. They should not have to go through tough environment and becoming mentally, emotionally, and physically violent and feeling like they have to be hard on themselves. It is a disgrace that some people at younger ages decide to live a life of transgressions and become what we call…
In juvenile detention, there are several positons, each performs various duties that relate to the juveniles incarcerated or on probation. Employees are responsible from tasks ranging from supervising to counseling. Some of the employees monitor certain actions and well-being of the juveniles. Many times, psychological evaluations are done to aid in the rehabilitation process. This can cause extreme stress on the employees. Juveniles can become violent or confrontational. Even with the amount of…
First week of the month November 2015 at my agency named Acorn to Oak Community Services, I observed many things outside of the agency. Since it is my block week, I was given the opportunity to go with the other students at the agency to shadow the organization lawyer defending his client at the court. I was unable to attend both days because of my professional mandatory class, but I did attended one out of the two. Before I explain what I achieved, I will like to explain a little bit of what I…
near-term impact on youth homicide; implementing and adapting the intervention; and evaluating the intervention’s impact. Problem-oriented policing works to identify why things are going wrong and to frame responses using a wide variety of often untraditional approaches by identifying the problem, analyzing it, figuring out an appropriate response, evaluating and then adjustmenting the response. In addition to policing strategies, improved and increased discipline was also likely to be a major…
The Chicago School and Cultural and Subcultural Theories of Crime (Chapter 7) The situation at hand is that based on the level of crime, the negative outcome of the schools in Chicago. The culture is becoming a chain reaction because of the impact of rising crime rates. The overall impact of the culture to school is becoming a tragic outcome among the Chicago schools around. The blame of disorganization is referring to the social status of the environment. The theory of the culture and…