Why Do Juveniles Commit Property Crimes

Crime is a major part of our society in many different ways. It allows us to lower the human population and put away the people who decide to be deviant. Although in the long run these can be good things crime also allows people to label each other in ways that wouldn’t have happened if crime was non-existent. It seems today that in our society people are getting labeled more often from people who do not really know the person personally. This is a bad habit that America is getting involved in. There are many different ways that juveniles can be deviant. Some deviance is as slight as running away from home and others as immense as murdering someone. Somewhere in between the two is where property crimes lie. Property crimes are defined as
One of the various theories is labeling theory which focuses on the view of deviance according to which being labeled as a "deviant" leads a person to engage in deviant behavior. The theory consists of how the self-identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to label them. It is largely associated with stereotyping and self-fulfilling prophecy. Many delinquents wouldn’t have ever gotten as far as they had if they hadn’t been labeled as a delinquent and felt like they had to live up to their new
Such as being labeled as a juvenile delinquent and finding ways to live up to that standard without going too far with it. Rather than making the crime violent such as murder or rape they resort to property damage such as vandalism and theft. They take the steps to be a juvenile delinquent but do not take the extra steps to commit violent crimes which they feel uncomfortable with. They want to maintain the label that they were given without doing something so bad that they have a higher chance of getting pushed up into adult court and getting a harsher