Juvenile Delinquency

Juvenile Delinquency

Introduction

The problem of juvenile crime is central to the science of criminology. Juvenile delinquency refers to the crimes carried out by young people or minors. It is one of the most important social phenomena that our societies have raised and is one of the internationally preferred criminological problems since the last century. The problem has become a social phenomenon in the period of the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. The term juvenile delinquency appeared in England in 1815 when Peter Bedford founded the company (Loeber, 1998). The purpose of which was to prevent crime by minors and detection of its sources. Similar initiatives have been taken a little later in the United States of America.

Discussion

There are many different theories on the causes of crime, most if not all of which can be applied to the causes of juvenile crime. The juvenile crimes often receive great attention from the media and politicians. This is because the level and types of youth crime 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 lead to source of alarm and moral panic (Puritz, 2000).

Criminological characteristics of juvenile delinquency has a number of specific features associated primarily with their age characteristics, such as the tendency to imitate, higher socio-psychological charging, or susceptibility, negativism, aborted vital moral orientations, emotional and volitional childishness, lack of interest in learning and labor and the loss of connection with educational and labor groups, tendency to criminal romance (Howell, 2010). Greater interest in minors calls sphere of leisure and social negative content.

Juvenile Delinquency in My Community

In my community, I have observed that there are a lot of young girls and males on probation and on parole as well. I had no idea that so many young people are faced with this trouble until UI started my internship as a juvenile probation officer. Throughout my internship tenure, I oversaw that so many children are facing problems at home and school yet, I believe that some of these problems can be avoided since there are lot of different programs for the young people to help them get out of this situation. I think that primary coaching starts from home and it's the responsibility of parents to provide proper counseling to their children so that they don't indulge in such activities.

Crime is a universal phenomenon linked to social life and no society without crime. There are four factors that play an important role in such crimes.

Social Factors: lack of school and family environment, misuse of leisure time, aggressiveness developed by the mass media, the population density in large urban centers, insufficient socio-cultural teams, etc.

Economic Factors: inadequate living standards, unemployment, lack of professional qualification.

Political Factors: crisis, lack of civic sense, etc.

Individual Factors: difficult to categorize.

Prevention and Control Strategies

Prevention of juvenile delinquency is an important part of crime prevention in the entire community and whole of United ...