Chapters 1-5
Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction Juvenile Delinquency has long been a problem of the Philippine society. The deviant behavior of today’s children was greatly disapprove and has become a great concern of the public. Long ago, adults committed crimes. They were charged and convicted accordingly but with the changing world come the change in nature of the crime and the doer of the crime. We know children as innocent. They are vulnerable and they need someone to guide them and provide for them. Families, environment, peers, and individual esteem play an important role in their upbringing. It is where they are molded to be what is expected of them of the society and the members of the family. A child’s ways mirror the kind of family where he came from and the environment he belongs to. Nevertheless, today, children were seen on the streets where crimes are easily committed and where they easily get away with it. Exposed to criminal elements these children are in danger of prostitution, drug addiction and pushing and commission of crimes. Most street children have became juvenile delinquents either out of necessity (because they are poor) or through force (because of the syndicates). Poverty is also the common origin of a great majority of children in jail. Broken families, abuse, violence, school dropout, drug addiction and life in the streets are other causes. In almost all cases, it is the failure of adults why children has landed in that situation where crime was the only option. The society is aware of it. Juveniles are often associated with gangs; they actually provide inconvenient way of living in the community. Conversely, the community they live in unknowingly influenced them to be these so called “Juvenile Delinquents”. It was as if the society’s awareness with this problem comes with the people’s tolerance mostly because they are children. They are young and naive. We cannot blame them for having the kind of life they are
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction Juvenile Delinquency has long been a problem of the Philippine society. The deviant behavior of today’s children was greatly disapprove and has become a great concern of the public. Long ago, adults committed crimes. They were charged and convicted accordingly but with the changing world come the change in nature of the crime and the doer of the crime. We know children as innocent. They are vulnerable and they need someone to guide them and provide for them. Families, environment, peers, and individual esteem play an important role in their upbringing. It is where they are molded to be what is expected of them of the society and the members of the family. A child’s ways mirror the kind of family where he came from and the environment he belongs to. Nevertheless, today, children were seen on the streets where crimes are easily committed and where they easily get away with it. Exposed to criminal elements these children are in danger of prostitution, drug addiction and pushing and commission of crimes. Most street children have became juvenile delinquents either out of necessity (because they are poor) or through force (because of the syndicates). Poverty is also the common origin of a great majority of children in jail. Broken families, abuse, violence, school dropout, drug addiction and life in the streets are other causes. In almost all cases, it is the failure of adults why children has landed in that situation where crime was the only option. The society is aware of it. Juveniles are often associated with gangs; they actually provide inconvenient way of living in the community. Conversely, the community they live in unknowingly influenced them to be these so called “Juvenile Delinquents”. It was as if the society’s awareness with this problem comes with the people’s tolerance mostly because they are children. They are young and naive. We cannot blame them for having the kind of life they are