APA RESEARCH PAPER

Juvenile Delinquency



Abstract

Juvenile delinquency refers to the crimes carried out by young people or minors. Juvenile crime often receives great attention from the media and politicians. The father's influence on antisocial behaviors in children may be a result of traditional gender role training. Males have traditionally received more encouragement to engage in aggressive behaviors than females. The relationship between race and involvement in delinquency is not entirely straightforward. To understand this relationship, one must consider the source of data. Geographic location is also a very important phenomenon that plays a vital role in juvenile delinquency. Lower-class individuals lack opportunities for success normally given to others and experience strain as a result. The strain of poverty and lack of opportunity motivates involvement in crime.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

Gender Delinquency4

Race Delinquency5

Geographic location7

Social class7

Conclusion8

Juvenile Delinquency

Introduction

Juvenile delinquency refers to the crimes carried out by young people or minors. A criminal is one who relapses and commits crimes repeatedly. Most legal systems consider specific procedures for dealing with this problem, such as juvenile detention centers. There are many different theories about the causes of crime, most if not all of which can be applied to the causes of juvenile crimes. Juvenile crime often receives great attention from the media and politicians. This is because the level and types of juvenile crimes can be used by analysts and the media as an indicator of the general state of morality and public order in a country and as a result can be a source of alarm and moral panic (Akers, 2000). Like most types of offenses, crimes committed by juveniles have increased since the mid-twentieth century. There are many theories about the causes of juvenile crimes, regarded as particularly important within criminology. This is because the number of crimes increases dramatically between fifteen and twenty years. Second, any theory about the causes of crime, juvenile crimes should be considered as adult criminals are likely to have had a beginning in crime when they were young.

Gender Delinquency

This early study seemed to indicate that antisocial behavior is probably influenced by the presence of an antisocial father who either serves as a model for such behavior or provides inadequate supervision, inconsistent discipline, or family conflict. The father's influence on antisocial behaviors in children may be a result of traditional gender role training. Males have traditionally received more encouragement to engage in aggressive behaviors than females have, and antisocial patterns are more prevalent among men than among women. As traditional gender roles change one might reasonably expect that antisocial tendencies will increase among females and that mother will play a greater role in the development of antisocial behaviors in children.

Crime and delinquency are committed primarily by males. But the strength of the relationship between gender and crime varies depending on data source (official vs. self-report data) and type of offense. UCR data show that males are disproportionately involved in crime and delinquency Males and females constitute roughly equal shares of the U.S. population, yet ...