VICTIMS OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS

Victims of Juvenile Delinquents



Abstract

This term paper aims at drawing the readers' attention to the growing problem of Juvenile Delinquency, its causal factors and the possible ways of dealing with it. This paper also aims at introducing the readers to the legal scenario regarding juvenile delinquents. The main strength of this paper is that it has tried to understand Juvenile Delinquency in the light of the already prevalent theories of Crime while concentrating upon the relevant data about Juvenile Delinquency obtained by several studies. In these prevalent theories the various causes for a juvenile to get delinquent is discussed, in this paper the position of Victims of Juvenile Delinquents in the present field is also discussed, the position of law the history about the various enactment is also discussed in this project.

Victims of Juvenile Delinquents

Outline

Introduction

Purpose Statement

Review of the literature

Conclusion

Introduction

There are numerous components that have caused the juvenile delinquency rate to boost over the last 50 years. In 1997-1998, 53 per hundred of youth misdeeds were house related offences, 20 per hundred were charged with violent assault, and 27 per hundred were ascribed with secondary crimes (Myths about Youth Crimes). Although the rate of youth misdeeds decreased in 1993, “violent misdeeds pledged by youth…doubled between 1986 and 1992, increasing faster than the mature person violent misdeed rate” (The advancement of Canada's young kids) (Warren,2007, pp. 393). Fortunately, Professor Peter Carrington, who studied juvenile crimes for 20 years, claims that the murder rates by youth have decreased significantly; however, many common violent assaults are increasing. The widespread determinants of youth crime are lone parenting, poverty, communal exclusion and homelessness.

Purpose Statement

This term paper aims at drawing the readers' attention to the growing problem of Juvenile Delinquency, its causal factors and the possible ways of dealing with it.

Research methods

The research will be based on secondary data collection. The data will be extracted from various journals, articles and books. In secondary research data will be extracted from various journals, books and articles.

Qualitative research will be used for proposed study. Qualitative research is more subjective as compared to quantitative research and uses very different methods of collecting information which could be both primary and secondary. As already mentioned this study will choose the secondary method. The theme of this type of research will be investigative along with open-ended(Warren, 2006, p79).

This type of research is often less expensive than outlines and is extremely effective by acquiring information. It is often the method of choice in the examples where quantitative measurement is not required.

Review of the literature One of the grave difficulties that determinants youth misdeeds to boost is lone parenting. In 1994, 61 percent of single parents worked outside of home, and their children, under 18, were unsupervised (The Progress of Canada's Children). Also, “Canada has no national child care system with set standards for fees and quality of services; as a result, the quality of regulated child-care programs is uneven across the country” (The Progress of Canada's ...