BEHAVIORS

Understanding and Supporting Behaviour

Understanding and Supporting Behaviour

Introduction

The activities conducted by the citizens of the state have direct impact upon the state as well as the people around them. The harmony and stability of the country depends upon the activities of the people and upon the ruling efficiency and effectiveness of the leaders. The nature of the crimes conducted has severe and negative impact upon the societies. Various books and articles have been published that shows about how the criminal activities have great impact upon the societies and other people are directly or indirectly affected by such criminal activities and also by the criminals. The most severe impact can be found upon the juveniles who develop negative behaviors and attitudes. The families play an important role in the development of child behaviors. The members of the family are greatly affected by the structures of the families and the circumstances they face in their daily lives. There are various factors in the societies that lead the children to indulge into the criminal activities and thus make them involved in juvenile crimes in early years and in the later years.

The following section aims at discussing in detail the famous quote from the behavior theories. It will be discussed in detail that how the families and the educational factors within the families have direct and significant impact upon the behaviors of the individuals and particular upon the juveniles.

The quote to be discussed is as follows:

“Aggression that begins in the earliest years of life is clearly linked to delinquent and criminal behavior in later life.” (New South Wales Government, 2004)

Discussion

According to the authors, Loeber, R. and Hay, D. (1997), the aggression is the type of behavior that creates or that threatens other people to harm. The authors have also proposed that the aggression also involves a number of behaviors including verbal and physical aggression, harassment, physical fighting, stealing, rape and murder. The aggression in the early years of life is caused by many environmental and emotional factors. The children learn from their environment, they take impact of the happenings and aggressions in their surroundings and later they follow the same aggression attitudes and behaviors.

There are various issues that are faced by the children in the societies and that leads the children to adopt aggression behavior. The juvenile justice system has found that the juvenile delinquent behavior is directed because of the parents, because of the social services and because of the law enforcement bodies (Loeber, R., Pardini, D. A., Stouthamer-Loeber, M., & Raine, A., 2007). Their laws and decisions derive the behaviors of the children. The delinquency is the criminal behavior that is carried out by the juvenile to satisfy its needs or to take the revenge for any injustice that the juvenile faced in the society. The psychological studies have shown that the unpleasant and aggressive behaviors of other people in the societies and of the immediate family members are reason behind the aggression behaviors of the children in the early ...