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A child or adolescent who is capable of being friendly, obedient, and caring -- who would follow the rules and act morally and ethically under normal circumstances -- can be driven to juvenile deliquency if neglected, abandoned or abused. Experts can give us many varying theories about the causes of the complex task that is known as juvenile delinquency. A few examples of causes include a family’s low socioeconomic status, low self esteem, parental substance abuse, repeated exposure to violence, and the breakdown of families, which leads to single parent families and one parent struggling to provide for their children. It also can be caused by the fact that, developmentally, teenagers are supposed to be conquering the task of separating from their parents and joining social groups outside the family unit. This can lead to rebellion and lack of parental control over children. In some cases, the parents never had control or had too many issues of their own to be able to effectively cope with their children’s issues. Many of the parents have never successfully conquered the developmental tasks of their own childhood or young adulthood. Additionally, recent studies suggest that the adolescent brain is not fully formed, as previously believed. Where society has expected the adolescent to follow adult rules, the adolescent is frequently ill equipped physiologically to have the insight or impulse control to understand how their actions affect people around them. For these reasons, juvenile delinquency exists everywhere, and has varying degrees of impact on the society in which it occurs.
Juvenile delinquency is a major problem in American Society during this day and age. In many cases, this increase is due in part to the child not being positively backed by his/her parents and the older people around him. In the short story The Destructors by Graham Greene, the boys rebel against the owner of the beautiful house, as he is not around due to his being on...