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    The “Broken Home” or Broken Society A Sociological Study of Family Structure and Juvenile Delinquency By Hillary R. Sheehan Advised by Professor Chris Bickel SocS 461‚ 462 Senior Project Social Science Department College of Liberal Arts CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY Winter‚ 2010 © 2010 Hillary Sheehan Delinquency 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page Research Proposal…………………………………………………………………………3 Annotated Bibliography…………………………………………………………………...5 Outline……………………………………………………………………………………10 Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………

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    Sociological Theories Bernice Garcia CJS/240 July 5‚ 2013 Kathy Holder Sociological Theories United States is encountering a serious of concerns about juvenile delinquency. The Criminal Justice System in hand with Governments and community programs are trying to reduce the impacting rates of youth crime acts. Even when such effort is not visible‚ there is concerned juveniles advocate working behind the scene to help

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    Robert Agnew extended Merton’s strain theory to explain juvenile Delinquency. He called his theory General Strain Theory of delinquency (GST) and broadened strain theory’s focus beyond economic goals and success. Agnew argued that adolescent strain results not only from failure to achieve economic goals‚ but also from failure to achieve noneconomic goals‚ the removal of positive stimuli‚ and the introduction of negative stimuli. Removal of positive stimuli can be the death of a loved one or the ending

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    resident state. In the Juvenile Justice System‚ their age range is from 0 -7‚ 7 – 14‚ and 14 – 21 which it’s called the three 7’s‚ Juvenile has a separated system to determine whether they are to be prosecuted as an adult or a minor‚ depended on the delinquency they had committed. The Juvenile System that they go by is the status offenses and delinquent‚ because of those it also separates the conviction for any crime that the juvenile involved in‚ for example: in the status offenses‚ it discusses the ideal

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    and ignores American tradition. It was a new idea to explain juvenile delinquency at that time. However‚ it cannot fully interpret crime and juvenile delinquency in nowadays. In the period from 1950 to 1964‚ the total number of juvenile who being arrested has increase from 14‚539 to 961‚132 in the America bureau of the census. (David‚ 1995‚ 58) It increased sixty six times and it was a rapid growth in the juvenile delinquency. It was a serious problem in America at that time. Therefore‚ there were

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    JUVENILE DELINQUENCY OR SOCIAL MALIGNANCY?   India is perhaps the only country in the world which has the dubious distinction of having maximum number of laws to regulate the conduct of society. It is the only country where almost all aspects of human behavior i.e. behavior with human beings‚ behavior with animals (both domestic & wild) with nature & environment etc. all are sought to be governed by laws rather than through education or innate enlightenment which is the preserve of every

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    Human Behavior of Social Environment Psychological Theories of Crime and Delinquency Marilyn Fishoff Long Island University In the article‚ “Psychological Theories of Crime and Delinquency‚” taken from‚ “The Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment‚” it attempts to understand the reasoning behind delinquent behavior. This is a topic that has interested human behaviorist for

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    The number of juvenile delinquents in Russia is growing rapidly. There are about 1.5 million juvenile arrests a year. Some causes for the rise of juvenile delinquency include lack of proper attention from their parents‚ the surrounding neighborhoods juvenile grew up in. Unfortunately‚ there are innumerable examples of family units that do not function effectively. Physical or emotional abuse‚ neglect and lack of interest by the parents in the children’s lives all contribute to a lack of proper

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    child figure thus occupies an ambiguous liminal space “that threatens as it unites ideas of domesticity” (Olson 6). ] Wetmore in his article‚ “Psycho without a cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema” compellingly argues that Psycho has many tropes common/characteristic of a juvenile delinquency or JD film. Hitchcock’s films abound with “dangerous children” (Wetmore 219) masquerading

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    Deviant Subcultures: Juvenile Delinquency and the Causes and Effects Andrea Clark Navarro College Abstract This paper explores what causes juvenile delinquency through explaining different theories. It explores Feud’s Id‚ Superego‚ and Ego to understand the development of the juvenile as well as exploring Merton’s Strain Theory‚ Cloward and Ohlin‚ The Chicago School‚ Albert K. Cohen’s Delinquent boys and the subculture of gangs

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