when discussing juvenile delinquency‚ choice views‚ sociological views and developmental views. These three theories attempt to explain what causes adolescents to turn to crime. Choice views of delinquency‚ was founded by Ceasare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham. These two theorists founded the idea that we as human have free will‚ and they concluded that individuals weigh the consequences of their actions before determining their actions or behaviors. The choice view of delinquency‚ is also referred
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creating these minces to society by setting them on a trajectory to juvenile delinquency? According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 2013 Residential Placement Census‚ on average there is an estimated 54‚000 being detained in the U.S (Justice‚ n.d.). Furthermore‚ based on the latest Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement indicates that approximately 2‚524 juveniles were being detained in juvenile justice facility because they were in violation of status offenses‚
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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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various theories on why people commit crime‚ but today we are going to specifically look into the three main social theories of juvenile delinquency. The first theory is the Social Structure Theory. The Social Structure Theory is based on social and economic stressors‚ especially related to poverty and how low income areas can become breeding grounds for juvenile delinquency. This theory has caught the attention of the nation‚ and the federal government has taken steps to provide assistance in lower
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Parents Are To Blame For Juvenile Delinquency Once a woman discovers the fact that she is pregnant and makes the choice to become a mother‚ she and the father have an obligation to provide a future for that unborn baby. Married or not‚ the child becomes the parents’ responsibility legally‚ emotionally‚ morally‚ and physically. Parents are signing an unwritten contract to protect and provide for their child‚ until the child is of age‚ to do so his or herself. Parenting does not come with a handbook;
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Abstract Psychologists‚ sociologists and criminologists the world over have long debated the various causes of delinquency. This paper focuses on some of the causes the have been and are considered viable from a theoretical and practical perspective. Some of these theorists point to the seminal experience of a childhood trauma especially child abuse‚ either of a physical or sexual nature. Others indicate that race‚ gender and socio-economic conditions (especially poverty) are of prime importance
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Jamaica was finally allowed to govern its own political‚ economical‚ and social affairs. The Spanish claimed the Island in 1494 when Christopher Columbus discovered it on one of his voyages to the Caribbean. The British took over in 1655‚ after a short battle with the Spanish‚ but that only lasted
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Juvenile delinquencies are minors who have committed a crime between the ages 10-18 years of age (Juvenile Delinquents). These children have commit crimes such as stealing‚ robbery‚ car jacking‚ selling drugs. Status offenses are crimes commit by teens that are under age‚ for the crime they committed. Such crimes included alcohol‚ curfew violation‚ truancy‚ and buying cigarettes. Alcohol is ethanol that can be an intoxicating agent (Alcohol). Alcohol use beings in adolescence and increases in rate
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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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