Essays on Juvenile Delinquency

Adolescents who perpetrate at least two violations ought to get an indistinguishable condemning from grown-ups. Shockingly a lion's share additionally advocates capital punishment for adolescents who carry out murder." People are seeing the expanded wrongdoing rates among youths and don't care for it. Unfortunately, measurements show that: manslaughters by adolescents have more than quadrupled in the vicinity of 1984 and 1994, the per capita capture rate for adolescent weapons offenses has ...

When the term juvenile delinquent is heard it is almost certain that someone pictures a group of young boys running the street getting into trouble. However, most will be surprised that the face of a juvenile delinquent is rapidly changing. Now there is a chance it could be a thirteen to eighteen year old girl. While boys are guilty of most of the juvenile crimes committed, the number of female juveniles involved with the justice system has been consistently growing over the years. According ...

The history of juvenile delinquency was dated back in 1700s. In 1704, Pope Clement XI has introduced a practice called ‘profligate youth’ to ensure that youth will become useful individuals to the society. Later in 1756, Marine Society of England has established an institution called ‘Ragged Schools’ to help juvenile offenders. In the same way, in 1825, the revolution has started in New York. The New York law has established ‘House of Refuge’ to help juveniles, who are involved in the crime. ...

Deviance is the state of separation from the societal norm, and often takes place in the form of crime. Crime is the ultimate example of deviance, because it is by definition the defiance of the law. Under the umbrella of crime exists juvenile delinquency, which is the violation of a criminal law by someone who is under a certain age, typically 18. However, juvenile delinquents can also be status offenders, which means that they did something forbidden to juveniles, but which is legal for ...

In the development of children, family plays a very critical role in determining the behavior of the young ones as they continue to develop. Family environment can be a risk or protective factor in the prevalence of juvenile delinquency. A peril factor exposes kids or promotes adoption of ill manners by the kids in the society. High exposure to these elements may increase the chances of minors engaging themselves in illegal acts. Juveniles exposed to aspects that promote illegality may grow to ...

In the current society, youths, regardless of social origin, gender, or country are subject to high individual risks. The society presents to them opportunities, which are sometimes beneficial but also potentially harmful at times. Equally, some youths take advantage of the available illegal opportunities and commit offenses such as being drug addicted or becoming violent against their peers or to the society. In regard, the change from childhood to a young adult is increasingly complex as ...

Law offenders are usually subjected to different trials after which they are given various sentences with respect to the type of crime they have committed (Silverman & Vega, 2001). There have been major developments in the justice system in the U. S. over the past few years. For a long period of time, cases of juvenile crimes have been on the rise in America, prompting various measures to be put in place regarding their sentences as well as imprisonment (Champion, 2001). This paper gives an ...

Boyz N the Hood is a 1991 film of John Singleton which clearly and vividly captures the life of a black American teen living in South Los Angeles. From the film, it can be seen that the youth from the black culture can be changed and that they can do more good than harm, provided the family bond is kept alive through continuous encouragement. There are major themes that support this statement. The four major themes elevated in the film are the power of family and black culture in the ghettos, ...

The article “Reconsidering Peers and Delinquency: How Do Peers Matter?” by Haynie and Osgood (2005) attempts to explain how the relationship among peers contributes to delinquency. The study was instigated to cover weaknesses and deficits of the previous studies that did not fully address delinquency in peers. The paper will present a review of the entire research publication analyzing it in detail step by step. The main topic of the study was to analyze the how peer relations leads to ...

Before the establishment of the juvenile court, in the late 18th and early 19th century, youth were placed in jails and penitentiaries as punished for their crimes. Since not many programs or facilities were established to place youth with criminal and noncriminal behavior, they were often placed in jails and pentatrities were adult offenders. At that time, America was struggling with high rates of child poverty and neglect which was putting pressure on city leaders to come up with a ...