Gender and Family Influences in Delinquency In today’s society, more and more adolescents are committing delinquent crimes. The juvenile justice system’s officials constantly are trying to establish what provokes an adolescent to become a delinquent and descend into this lifestyle. Adolescents are more likely to become juvenile delinquents if there is too little structure provided for them in their families or loss of inner feelings and pride in their particular gender. This paper explores how an adolescent’s gender and family life influences delinquency. Several different variables focus on leading adolescents into delinquency such as gender differentials, masculinity hypothesis, family function, impact of family disorders, and two parent households.
By Jamie Makey 9/18/13 Juveniles think, act, and understand life differently than adults. Juveniles respond differently to circumstances in their lives. Juveniles do not have the same rights and responsibilities that adults have. They often are not mature enough to understand the consequences of their actions. The law does recognize these differences, but, a Juvenile, like an adult, makes the choice to commit a crime or not.
Family Dynamics and how it affects Juvenile Delinquency Family Dynamics and how it affects Juvenile Delinquency There have been several papers that have been written that examined and picked through the reasoning’s of why different things affect juvenile delinquency. That said Family dynamics plays a key role in many factors regarding youth but the ultimate reasoning’s in why youth becomes juvenile delinquents and act out comes from the historical background of the family dynamics, how the family dynamics affects the juveniles, and what can be done to help and correct the issue. This paper will give a brief historical background on juveniles and family dynamics, discuss how family dynamics affect juveniles, and discuss different ways to help and correct the juveniles from being delinquent. Historical Background Juveniles and Family Dynamics Before exploring the reasoning’s of what, why, and how family dynamics affect juveniles; the first thing that can be examined is the history of what juveniles’ means and where it came from. During the 19th and 20th centuries that a new conceptualization of childhood and how children ought to behave emerged in both popular culture and the medical world.
No matter how bad or good their life is kids or teens still have problems they face. Teens and kids deal with problems differently than adults do, they may face their problems with anger or violence and this is why they become delinquents. All juvenile delinquents are different. They all have their own problems and each one has different needs. They need to be treated with just as much respect as the others their age do.
No physical harm meaning comparable to murder or assault. In criminal law, court preparations of victimless crime cases do not always identify an individual or croup as its victims. Also in filings, mens rea is considered because of no damage or harm was committed. The victim in victimless crimes is very hard to identify and very controversial because of its comparability to other crimes. There are 4 guidelines in determining how the crime can be considered victimless.
Often times these surveys make the assumption that crimes are always discrete incidents rather than a repetitive social processes. Specific measurement problems can be limited distribution of incident knowledge, forgetting or inaccurate recall of events, and lax participation in surveys. Three procedural issues which affect estimates of victimization rates are problems of panel bias and attrition, differences between telephone and personal interviews, and interviewer effects(Karmen 65-68). The UCR and NIBRS collectively only include figures based solely on crimes known to local police and sheriff’s department and focus mainly on the crime itself and not so much the victim. The accuracy of both reports is routinely in question because of the percentage of victims who do not self-report and often multiple crimes are listed as one- the most serious-while the rest are not accounted for in the reports(UCR).
Why do juveniles become delinquents? Juveniles from the ages twelve to seventeen tend to get involved in negative activities which lead them to delinquency. Juvenile delinquency is also known as juvenile offending, or youth crime, and is basically the participation in illegal behavior by minors. Most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with juveniles, such as juvenile detention centers and courts. The question most Americans are asking themselves is, “what leads a child to delinquency?” Authors of Delinquency in Society, Robert M. Regoli, John D. Hewitt, and Matt Delisi argue, “Juvenile delinquency is a complex phenomenon that is difficult to define, measure, explain, and prevent.” (pg.4) The authors’ arguments explain how there are numerous variables that could be applied to the actions of these juveniles, such as their environment, education, race, class, and gender.
There was nothing to say that legal advice during questioning was on offer and neither were there any limits on detention many miscarriages of justice arose from this point in time (Yesufu. 2013). According to Lord Scarman (1986) there is not enough supervision during the process of arrest and interrogation and the police are able to continue the process away from the gaze and commands of senior officers. This could further lead to miscarriages of justice as the police have immense discretion on what they perceive to be criminal activity, but we as a society trust the police to do their job and to use their discretion while questioning suspects. (Stephenson.
People have no clue of how that juvenile may live, or the things he or she may tolerate at home. The focus of the juvenile court system are simple: reduce the amount of concerns dealing with legal issues of guilt and innocence, the importance of the juveniles’ best interests, and privacy and protection. Once a juvenile has been accused of committing a crime, the first thing to find out is their involvement. Are they guilty or innocent? No one wants to convict an innocent man or woman of a crime they didn’t commit, so surely no one wants to convict a juvenile—without knowing.
The elevated rates of negative moods, nonacademic pursuits, and alcohol and tobacco use found in teens with ADHD characteristics, combined with higher exposure to peers and lower exposure to family, suggest that even at subclinical levels of ADHD, some of these young people may be traveling along an unsalutary trajectory.Helping these adolescents to change this course may require efforts along multiple fronts,including theenhancement ofemotion regula- tion, family relations, task mastery, and healthy life- style behaviors. Information about what these teens are doing and feeling promises to inform develop- mental theories of ADHD, as well as guide programs aimed at curtailing or preventing the intractable so- cial and occupational handicaps that plague many people with