Juvenile crimes are one of the most common problems that have negative consequences on any community. Juvenile crimes refer to the crimes that are perpetrated by individuals who are under the adult age. Statistical analysis indicated that this number grows daily. This has triggered the government to seek intervention measures to help reduce the increasing trend and hence safeguard the society against future offending. This because such children who have records of crime develop to become uncontrollable gangs in the society.
In class we discussed the Family Atmosphere and delinquency, and this really meets with most of the juveniles cases of crime that we are having. The aspects that could lead youths to commit such crimes could be based for example on maternal affection, if the parents always fitting, if the mother sees thing and she is not strong enough to stop it, or most of the cases parents are criminals themselves and involved with drug problem. This is a good reason why there are so many cases of crimes that juveniles are involved. Also how adolescent learn aggression and violence at home, or the environment they are in. This could involve how much violence do they witness, and for example how violence is portrait.
Failing the Next Generation Karla Osborn CJA 324 April 2, 2012 Rhonda Smith Failing the Next Generation The video viewed was titled “Child Exposure to Domestic Violence.” What children are exposed to when growing up in this type of environment is much more than any adult could ever imagine. The video touched bases on it. However, until one lives that life one could never ever full understand it. This video was more of a personal crime. It hit on the victims who do not know how to handle the stress that comes with this life.
Emotionally those who have been teased, bullied, those who bully schoolmates are in jeopardy of using aggression towards others and themselves, those who have been sexually, physically or sexually abused. When a child act out towards teachers, their parents, or others that is not an important threat (kids do that) but when there is violence involved this is a flashing warning signal for juvenile delinquency. These are just a small amount of the warning signs (Dr. Laura Hoelscher, 1993). This paper will have information explaining the goals, core beliefs, and objectives of these programs along with how they work in the reduction of crime among juveniles and increase the rehabilitation rate. Also explained within this paper are the services available for the juveniles and families.
For the 21st Century Readiness Project, I started doing research on Teen Crimes. This stuck out to me the most because Hoke County High School has been impacted in a way that was unimaginable by this very topic. When teenagers are out in the world without an adult present, the door is open for any situation. Teen crime is going to continue to have severe consequences if nothing is done to prevent it. There are several theories as to why teens act out in violence, which results in many rules and regulations at schools and other places that there were not before, but can be prevented by using several different avenues including the family, schools, and the community.
Mental illnesses also maybe a reason. Psychiatric disorders are sometimes associated with domestic violence like borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, among others. Social theories of domestic violence looks at the external factors in the offenders environment, such as family structure, stress, social learning & includes rational choice theories. The social learning theory could be a reason for domestic violence. The social learning theory(slt) believes that all behavior is learnt form experience(nurture) but we also learn through observation.
However it has recently came to question of whether this perception of dangerousness is supported. Is it true that once a sex offender always a sex offender? In this paper I will discuss the evidence about the commonness and nature of sexual offending, characteristics of sex offenders, recidivism rates among different kinds of sex offenders and the support of treatment programs. In most studies the sexual offenders term can be broken down into 3 different classifications. The first group is sexual offenders that commit crimes of sexual violence against adults.
Violence usually emerges as a behavior in middle to late adolescence but there are precursor developmental antisocial behaviors that may lead to violent behavior. This behavior is on a continuum from defiance of authority to more severe forms of aggression. Each individual is different in how severe these forms of aggression manifest themselves, “some developing minor aggression only while others progress to serious and repeated violence.” This is the developmental pathway to violence and how far each individual progress on that pathway has been the subject of extensive study. Investigators focused on whether developmental sequences in problem behavior represent permanent changes in behavior. These conceptual pathways have the following features: 1) Individuals who advance down one pathway displayed behaviors of the earlier stages of the pathway.
Family Life and Juvenile Delinquency Researchers have established that there many paths to juvenile delinquency and numerous risk factors that contribute to a youth’s opportunity to offend. The environment in which a child is raised plays a very crucial role in predicting their behaviour in adolescence and subsequent, in adulthood. Delinquency and criminal behaviour typically begin in the home and continue into society. Many modern criminologists argue that youth’s who were deprived of parental warmth and affection had weak family and social bonds and tended to develop a set of beliefs that were negative and hostile towards society (Walsh, 1991). Furthermore, child maltreatment is a consequential social problem.
VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA In recent years we have witnessed an alarming increase in the crime rate, especially among young people. We have been left shocked and at a loss to find explanations for why teenagers rob and blackmail, why young people commit physical violence, why children become murderers. Some people place the blame on the way violence is represented in the media and, as a consequence, demand that there should be stricter controls, or even censorship, put in place. However, this way of dealing with the problem is not undisputed. It is necessary to take a closer look at whether or not violence in the media really is responsible for this development and then to examine what censorship may entail before taking such a far-reaching decision.