In order to create and operate successful rehabilitation programs for juvenile delinquents we need to understand what causes juvenile delinquency. This is important because the rehab programs should be based and aimed toward fixing the problems that influence children to become delinquents. There are numerous reasons and factors that cause juveniles to commit delinquent acts. Many are not fully understood, but there are a few that are believed to be the main causes of delinquent
This period is when one can either make it out to become a great adult in the future or become a total mess all together. This is as a result of the kind of groups that people tend to associate themselves with. Peer pressure is very common among the youth and therefore parents and guardians are required to guide their kids so as not to fall in the wrong group. However, there are children who are not lucky to have stable homes and therefore they get involved in antisocial activities that eventually lead to criminal acts. Some of the children end up being arrested and being sentenced to juvenile prisons.
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.
This because such children who have records of crime develop to become uncontrollable gangs in the society. In this view, the government has dedicated a lot of resources to rehabilitative projects in order to reduce these numbers. In addition, a number of intervention measures have been engaged to help the society to control criminal delinquents. However, there is still much to be done. In this article, we shall evaluate the effectiveness of the measures that have been taken to control the children and adolescents who have a high risk of future offending.
The most effective community-based interventions are the ones that stresses family communication and build the skills of juvenile parents or other caretaker • Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is aimed at 11 to 18 year olds who are experiencing problems with delinquency, substance abuse, or violence. An individual therapist works with a family in the home to improve problem solving, emotional connections, and strengthen parents’ abilities to provide structure, guidance, and limits for their children. • Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is a family-based program designed to help parents deal effectively with the behavioral problems of their children. MST provides 50 hours of counseling with master-level professionals and round-the-clock crisis intervention over a four-month period. The program reduces re-arrests and out of home placements for problem youth in the juvenile justice and social services systems • Intensive Protective Supervision (IPS) This program provides case managers who interact with the teen and his or her family by making frequent home visits, offering support for parents, developing individual service plans, and arranging for services as
Corrections and Treatment Tunsghen Anderson CJS/240 05/13/2012 Deanna Beaubouef Corrections and community based treatments in the Juvenile Justice System have a variety of proactive programs and rehabilitative efforts to deter crime. These programs are designed and can help juvenile offenders with modifying their behavioral issues, provide therapy to rehabilitate their mental state of mind, and prevent criminal activity in the long run. Treatment options are divided into two smaller categories: community-based treatment and institutionalization. These two types of treatment programs are specifically designed for juvenile offenders. These treatment programs will help get juvenile offenders back on the right track towards a positive lifestyle.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY THE FAMIL DISORGANISATION ISSUE INTRODUCTION Juvenile delinquency is one of the serious problems of deviation which the children of almost all the modern societies of the world are facing. There may be many social and psychological factors responsible for the drift in child’s conforming behaviour to delinquents. CAUSES FOR JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Broken home, Poverty, Illiteracy, Low socio- economic status, Behavioural problems, Peer groups, Negative impact of media. DEFINITION According to THE JUVENILE JUSTICE (CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN) ACT, 2000 "juvenile" or "child" means a person who has not completed eighteenth year of age; "juvenile in conflict with law" means a juvenile who is alleged to have committed an offence Reckless (1956) defines the term as “juvenile delinquents applies to the violation of criminal code or pursuit of certain pattern of behaviour disapproved for children and young adolescents” THEORIES SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY PRIMING EFFECTS THEORY STRAIN THEORY ANOMIE THEORY FAMILY DISORGANISATION Family disorganisation is the term includes any disorganisation in the family such as # Low socio economic status of the family, # Broken home, # Adultery, # Ill parental discipline etc. CONTINUES…..
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: FAMILY STRUCTURE Juveniles are thought to be mischievous, almost expected to be in trouble. Realizing and understand what is too far is a major factor. Any action has consequences, but the measure of recidivism is what determines a delinquent from simple mischief. Broken homes seem to have hardship written all over it. The link between a broken home and delinquency are strongly believed.
3] Neighborhood – The immediate environments of a child also affect the trend he will adopt in connection with his personality. * 4] Educational Curriculum : Although schools and educational institutes are playing an increasingly important role in the training and upbringing of future citizens, they are also contributing towards many cases on juvenile delinquency. Delinquents are typically non-bookish and non-academic individuals who take studies like a burden. When they fail in exams and get scolded by their family, they tend to indulge themselves in delinquent acts. * * 5] Poverty : People indulge themselves in delinquent acts in order to meet and satisfy the primary wants of their life.
There are many reasons to prevent juveniles from becoming delinquents or from continuing to engage in delinquent behavior. The most obvious reason is that delinquency puts a youth at risk for drug use and dependency, school drop-out, incarceration, injury, early pregnancy, and adult criminality. Saving youth from delinquency saves them from wasted lives. Juvenile justice systems in the United States have long struggled with the inherent tension between their role in meting out punishment for violations of law and their role as an authoritative force for bringing about constructive behavior change in the wayward youth who commit those violations. Every single person living in the United States today is affected by juvenile crime.