Kelly Owens SOC 210 Causes and Solutions on Juvenile Delinquency March 20‚ 2014 Causes and Solutions on Juvenile Delinquency This is a very interesting article in its root as it tries to get to the bottom of the cause of juvenile delinquency. The article touches on four perspectives: family‚ personal reason‚ peer group influence‚ and society. Family: Economics Let’s first start with economic factor. The author is basically just giving you a common sense fact that by being poor you are the more
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The debate between nature vs. nurture in regards to crime and delinquency is a long and heated one. Are some people really born criminals‚ or is our society and the environment and experiences children are brought up in the reason they become delinquent? Throughout this essay I am going to look at both sides of the argument‚ and offer an insight into the theoretical and sociological approaches surrounding this nature vs. nurture debate. The first step in looking at the nature side of the debate
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Shaw and McKay ’s Theory of Juvenile Delinquency Robert Gault Saint Leo University Theories if Criminal Behavior CRM-426 Professor Crawford May 19‚ 2013 Abstract According to Lilly‚ et al (2011‚ p. 44) social disorganization is specific to the inability of community members to bring about shared values or jointly solve problems. Shaw and McKay identified this social ineffectiveness common to the metropolitan areas affordable for the lower class of poor families. Furthermore‚ their analyses
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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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Delinquency Deterrence Punishment for violating the laws can be lenient or they can be harsh‚ and they can be used to prevent others from committing crimes as well as deterring people from becoming repeat offenders. People assume that juveniles are not rational beings; meaning that they do not know the difference between right and wrong and that they do not understand the consequences following their actions‚ however that assumption is wrong because juveniles can be deterred from committing
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Learning Theories and its Effect on Juvenile Delinquency Bryan Johnson University Online CJUS XXXX-XXX – Juvenile Justice Instructor James Dean December 10‚ 2012 SOCIAL LEARNING 1 Abstract This paper briefly explores the Social Learning Theory and its effect on juvenile delinquency. The paper opens with a brief history of the
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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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affect on the actions of our juveniles. Juveniles delinquency is based on gender‚ because depending on the gender of the juvenile depends on what type of values where instilled within the juveniles. Also‚ the family has a huge affect on the action of the juveniles‚ because that all depends on the values of the family. The two intertwine and in this paper I will show you how the each affects the delinquency of the juveniles. Gender affects delinquency in different ways through socialization‚ cognitive
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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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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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