Feature Article- Juvenile Delinquency
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Juvenile Delinquency One of the trending issues of today is about juvenile delinquencies. Juvenile delinquency is a criminal or antisocial behavior of juveniles. Juvenile delinquents are usually considered to be in need of treatment, rehabilitation, or discipline. The term delinquency also applies to payments that are overdue. More and more teenagers are encountering this. Problem children tend to grow up into problem adults and problem adults tend to produce more problem children. This is why many parents are not yet ready in the life of being a parent because of early age. The causes why teenagers encounter this because of adequate parental control, failures in schools , increased availability of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs and because they were not sufficiently penalized for previous delinquent acts or that they have learned criminal behavior through interaction with others. They tend to rebel and do some non-teenager things like parental disobedience, drinking alcohol, taking drugs and cigarettes and especially joining some fraternities and sororities. And sometimes they also commit murder. Ages under 18 also commit such of those delinquent acts. Families have also experienced changes within the last 25 years. More families are encountering one-parent households. Consequently, children are likely to have less supervision at home than was common in the traditional family structure. With this, the juvenile justice system tries to treat and rehabilitate youngsters who become involved in delinquency. The methods can be categorized as community treatment, residential treatment, nonresidential community treatment and institutionalization.
In most instances community treatment involves placing the child on probation. When the child is not believed to be harmful to others, he or she is placed under the supervision of an officer of the juvenile court and must abide by the specific rules that are worked out between the
Feature article
Juvenile Delinquency One of the trending issues of today is about juvenile delinquencies. Juvenile delinquency is a criminal or antisocial behavior of juveniles. Juvenile delinquents are usually considered to be in need of treatment, rehabilitation, or discipline. The term delinquency also applies to payments that are overdue. More and more teenagers are encountering this. Problem children tend to grow up into problem adults and problem adults tend to produce more problem children. This is why many parents are not yet ready in the life of being a parent because of early age. The causes why teenagers encounter this because of adequate parental control, failures in schools , increased availability of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs and because they were not sufficiently penalized for previous delinquent acts or that they have learned criminal behavior through interaction with others. They tend to rebel and do some non-teenager things like parental disobedience, drinking alcohol, taking drugs and cigarettes and especially joining some fraternities and sororities. And sometimes they also commit murder. Ages under 18 also commit such of those delinquent acts. Families have also experienced changes within the last 25 years. More families are encountering one-parent households. Consequently, children are likely to have less supervision at home than was common in the traditional family structure. With this, the juvenile justice system tries to treat and rehabilitate youngsters who become involved in delinquency. The methods can be categorized as community treatment, residential treatment, nonresidential community treatment and institutionalization.
In most instances community treatment involves placing the child on probation. When the child is not believed to be harmful to others, he or she is placed under the supervision of an officer of the juvenile court and must abide by the specific rules that are worked out between the