Juvenile Delinquency

A detailed Summary of Juvenile Delinquency

I felt this was a good place to start, considering I feel that most criminal activity starts at a young age. There are very few criminals who have picked up the trade in their adult life. Just as manners and norms are developed at an early age, delinquency and defiant behavior is also. There are certain factors that wage deviance that I think are important to explain. Heredity is an important factor, a lot of characteristics come from this. How one may react to certain situations is not genetic, but can be developed early in life by home situations. The way one is treated and disciplined as a young child directly affects how he or she will perceive and treat those around them in life. The environment a child grows up in plays a key role in determining the child's view on life, which may have a direct effect on his or her proneness to delinquency.

There are certain characteristics that I feel we inherit and certain characteristics that we develop at a young age. Some genes may cause a child to have a short temper or a limited attention span. Other genes may make it difficult for the child to learn in school. He or she may turn to other means and other children to feel "part of the group." Often these "other children" ar

Child delinquency can have a major effect on society. A high number of larceny and assault crimes are commited by delinquents. Delinquents tend to disrupt classrooms and public places such as the library or community pool. They are making it harder for children who wish to do well in school but have a handicap of some sort. They are making it dangerous for other school children to enjoy their youth by fighting, stealing, and hurting them. Finally a reason that outweighs all the above, juvenile delinquency directly affects the juvenile themselves. By taking part in early delinquent activities, it is only ensuring criminal activity later in life. This in the long run will impact society greatly.

By generalizing traits we can distinguish inherited traits from learned behavior. I believe that when children are young they learn the norms of society from their parents, but they learn social roles from their peers. They learn how to be accepted and what behavior will get them the appropriate response. First and foremost certain things need to be noted. A delinquent child is one that has little or no respect for authority. This causes them to act out against authority and any formal institution constraining him or her. A delinquent child is often characterized as angry, impulsive, of lower intelligence, abusive, unremorseful, irrational, short-tempered, and one with no direction. These are a few and note I am not saying that every delinquent has all these traits. Children who have no strong family role models may rely solely on peer support and guidance. This can be harmful because the other children are also learning their roles too and do not provide an accurate model. Children learn right from wrong at a young age and they learn how to do right and how to do wrong. Very seldom do you find adults "just learning the trade" later in their life. I think it takes a certain mindset to commit crimes. This mindset is a product of acceptable behavior developed at a young age. This of course is excluding rare cases of adult rebellion and mid life crises.

In cases where the child has little hope of having a stable environment (such as living in poverty with a single parent) perhaps there is no one to blame except society. I think then you have to turn

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