Introduction More than 2 million juveniles are arrested each year with nearly 600‚000 entering into juvenile incarceration. (Kapp‚ Petr‚ Robbins‚ & Choi‚ 2013) There has been a steady increase of youthful female offenders. From the early nineties up until about 2006‚ simple assault crimes have decreased “4% for male juveniles and it increased 19% for females” (Espinosa‚ Sorensen‚ & Lopez‚ 2013). “25 to 50 percent of antisocial girls commit crimes as adults (Pajer‚ 1998)”. "Similar risk factors
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Theories of Juvenile Delinquency: Why Young Individuals Commit Crimes? Firstly‚ what does it mean when someone uses the term juvenile delinquency? Juvenile delinquency can also be referred to as juvenile offending which occurs when a young person under the age eighteen who in which has repeatedly committed a crime or offense. In the United States and other countries‚ juvenile crime is one of the most serious problems. The reason why juveniles commit crimes is sort of complicated and difficult
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Assessing Juvenile Delinquency in Trinidad and Tobago using Subcultural Theories Diane S Lewis University of the West Indies Abstract Devin Mills‚ a student I privately tutored‚ was gunned down while walking in Deigo Martin in January 2011‚ newspaper reports portrayed him as a typical lower-class male who got caught up in the wrong things and believed his murder was gang-related. I did not understand why everyone viewed him as such because to me‚ Devin was a sincere and compassionate young man
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volunteer militia who opened fire on the group‚ killing seven. Immediately‚ the militia retreated but the group that day killed 18 people‚ officials and militia‚ and had taken the town. In the days that followed some 2‚000 rebels roamed the countryside‚ killing two white planters and forcing others to flee for their lives. Governor Edward Eyre sent troops to hunt down the poorly armed rebels‚ and bring Paul Bogle back to Morant Bay to be hung. Despite the fact that these troops were met with no resistance‚ the
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in the dangerous and unwelcome streets‚ and the main causes of this saddening problem is mainly the fear of shame and poverty. Religious and moral ethics faces hidden love and affection in a big clash. One of the most concrete causes of juvenile delinquency relates to illegal couples abandoning their new-borns‚ fearing the embarrassing and shameful gossip this event can engender. Thus‚ abandoning their illegal children to the streets seems the only solution. Another example would be the fathers
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little insular worlds‚ most juveniles are fueled by their selfish‚ self-centered desires. Even with experience as their best teacher‚ juveniles often feel superhuman and invincible‚ at least until the worst of all possible scenarios happens to them. Typical of youth‚ such unbridled and extravagant thinking causes juveniles to feel practically untouchable by the long arm of the law. As personal perceptions make a person ’s reality what it is‚ the perceptions of juveniles‚ no matter how warped‚ lead
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“Social Perspectives on Juvenile Delinquency” Artie Swift Kaplan University CJ445: Case Management in Juvenile Justice Unit 8 Final Essay Professor Kathryn Sellers 02/03/2014 The juvenile generation of today has drifted far from the family values that their parents grew up with and tried to pass along to them but there are many loop holes in the generations of yesterday and today. Although‚ it is not easy to find the true connection between the practices of early childhood
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The Effects of Child Abuse on Juvenile Delinquency Tyshenia Gavin Virginia State University Dr. Hodgson Abstract This literature review explores existing literature and scholarship that outlines the effects of early child abuse (2-8 years old) on future acts of delinquency. Literature suggests that a correlation exists between the effects of child abuse and delinquency. Common problematic behaviors are socialization changes and learning abilities from
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The Relationship Between Race and Juvenile Delinquency Four years now researcher in the fields of psychology sociology‚ genetics‚ and the juvenile justice system have contemplated the reason why some youth turn to delinquency and violence. To investigate the reasons‚ for some adolescents you would have to research on a case to case basis could fall into one category of multiple categories stemming‚ why they act the way they do and what cause these reactions. Some researchers may want to
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The disengagement theory of ageing Social scientists Elaine Cumming and William Henry outlined the disengagement theory of aging in 1961. The disengagement theory discusses the processes of aging‚ it states that as people get into later adulthood they could experience stages of loneliness and become withdrawn from society‚ for example friends and family. This theory suggests that this process is a natural part of growing old. One part of the theory states that people expect or know that they are
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