Juveniel Delinquency

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Juvenile Delinquency

Introduction

Juvenile delinquent behavior is one of the most important issues we face as a nation in this new millennium . Despite the social awareness juvenile delinquency is on the rise Juvenile crime is increasingly more sophisticated and its participants are becoming younger . Gun violence has spread out from urban centers into suburbia . Drug and alcohol use among adolescents has reached epidemic proportions . How can we solve the problem of adolescent delinquent

behavior ? Many times the punishment for juvenile delinquency does not fit the crime . The issues surrounding juvenile delinquency today may well hinge on our understanding of how a teenager who commits crime thinks and behaves . How do we recognize criminal behavior in juveniles ? It is possible that biological factors play a role in the criminal behavior of a juvenile offender . How can we even defend the theory of pure mind and physical body shape of adolescence to determine the factor that leads to delinquent behavior How can we analyze the cause that relates to the delinquent act ? It is likely , but no empirical data supports the belief that juveniles have biological inheritance that causes their delinquency . However , one may argue the fact that as adolescents go through stages of development their physical shape tends to resemble that of other juvenile delinquents who , perhaps , have similar physical characteristics , and who might have been committing juvenile crimes . As a result , we tend to assume the probability that the next juvenile with the same physical shape will also be a juvenile delinquent . Although this is a possibility , it is an unlikely one . The result of being a juvenile delinquent is the increasing incidence of runaways , teenage suicides teenage parenthood , and a series of unhappy marriages and divorces . In this new millennium , children seem to be getting less nurturing and support from within their family . Instead , children are spending more and more time in front of televisions , computers , and surfing the Internet in to ascertain where to buy guns and homemade bombs all of which contribute to the delinquency problem .4 However , we cannot always place the blame on parents at times children just want to listen to their peers and follow their advice . If we look into other variables such as age , sex , type of offense , and quality of single parent-child relationship , we could reach a conclusion that it is not necessarily the parent who is at fault . We cannot correlate one factor to determine why juveniles commit crimes . I researched juvenile behavior dealing exclusively with girls , and I found that girls tend to be juvenile delinquents when they lose emotional touch with their family or someone close to them . Most girls are arrested for incorrigibility , running away , gang involvement , and sex offenses while most boys are arrested for vandalism , theft , assault , rape , drugs and some major offenses . It is very hard to define juvenile delinquency in terms of deviance from conduct...