experts can give us many theories as to the causes of juvenile delinquency‚ including one’s economic background‚ substance abuse‚ peer groups‚ repeated exposure to violence through the family circit‚ increased availability of firearms and media violence‚ however‚ I feel that the number one cause of juvenile delinquency is the breakdown of families‚ including lack of parental control over children. It is ironic that one must have a driver’s license to operate a car‚ a permit to own a gun and
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the Smith Family‚ an average white middle class suburban family. James the father and leader of the family is forty-five years old and has a stable job as an accountant at a large firm‚ his wife Lisa is forty-four and is a well-recognized interior designer in her town. The two got married in 1997 and later had their first child Jennifer who is seventeen and a High School Junior and a few years later their second child Michael was born who is fifteen and a High School Freshman. They have just moved
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Juvenile Delinquency Theories Through an understanding of causes of juvenile delinquency society may come to deal preventively with delinquency; certainly treatment of the offender needs to be based upon an understanding of the causal mechanisms that have produced him. In this paper we’ll describe three theories of juvenile delinquency such as Social Learning Theory‚ General Strain Theory and Behavioral Theory and discuss appropriate preventive programs based upon these theories. In 1977 Albert
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Does the American Family Have a History? Family Images and Realities A revolution has taken place in family life since the late 1960s. Today‚ two-thirds of all married women with children--and an even higher proportion of single mothers--work outside the home‚ compared to just 16 percent in 1950. Half of all marriages end in divorce--twice the rate in 1966 and three times the rate in 1950. Three children in ten are born out of wedlock. Over a quarter of all children now live with only one parent
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right to review human mobility as a combination of progress in vehicles and the act walking. Land transportation presently plays the dominant mode of transportation in the Philippines with many moving-in motor vehicles. Traffic volume continues to have an effect over a never-widening land area. In addition‚ illegal parking and other violations of traffic rules continuously loom over this traffic landscape. All of these mentioned situations and conditions can only redound to major problems in traffic
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Reducing Juvenile Delinquency ABSTRACT There are many different parts of the Criminal Justice system. This paper will bring about the argument of how we can reduce Juvenile Delinquency in the United States. When a child is born he has no way of knowing he will become a bad element of society. There are many reasons that a child can turn to the bad elements of crime. We must ask ourselves‚ “why does this happen”? What can we as adults do to help the children of America stay on the right track
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From Delinquency to success The sociological theory of delinquent subcultures belongs to Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin which is based on Robert Agnew’s general strain theory and social disorganization. Agnew’s theory explained that multiple sources of stress and strain affect a juvenile’s emotional traits and response‚ resulting in criminal or delinquent behavior. Cloward and Ohlin theorize that certain groups or subcultures in a society have values and attitudes that are conducive to crime
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Juvenile Delinquency can be defined in three different ways; legal definition‚ role definition and the societal response definition. In the legal definition‚ it is the act that causes them to be juvenile delinquents. The role definition‚ it is the actor that who is perceived to be a delinquent. In the societal response‚ it is the audience reaction that defines the person as deviant or a delinquent. With all those definition the main thing that has to be considered to judge if a person is a juvenile
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Drug Use and Delinquency Response Adolescents may try drugs just to experiment or by feeling pressured into trying the drug by other family members or friends. Drug use among adolescences may lead to delinquency for the fact that an adolescents’ behavior most likely started before the start of drugs or alcohol. I will give a brief explanation on reasons for delinquency and drug use starting with reasons adolescents may start using drugs or alcohol and then describe how drug use may relate to delinquency
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of criminal on many means of media. Following them‚ it appears that juvenile delinquency is a hurtful newsreel problem which educators and all of parents in our society have to pay attention to. It is easy to find out that juvenile behavior has its roots in family breakdown and domestic violence‚ as well as lack of parental moral guidance and supervision. Broken family is the most important cause of juvenile delinquency. In fact‚ the break-up of the parents’ relation really affects children’s psychology
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