JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

Juvenile Delinquency

Juvenile delinquency

Introduction

Juvenile delinquency is a set of behavioral traits considered antisocial. It is a form of social maladjustment. This term is defined strictly in relation to the law so that the misrepresentation is one that causes a legal punishment; "The expression" young offender "means a child who commits a breach of any provision of the Criminal Code. It must be distinguished from adult crime since the young offender is a person in training and socialization courses, while the adult offender has a personality already established. Crime attributable to young offenders has long been the subject of a specific legislative treatment that takes into account the age of the offender. This condition has been, throughout history, justifying a penal treatment more or less repressive.

Discussion

Changes in society may be the source not only of increased rates of delinquency and juvenile violence, but also increasing concerns that elicits participation in the crime of specific categories of young people as girls, young children and young people from ethnic minorities, in. Some Western European countries specific studies clearly show crime rates higher than average among young people belonging to certain ethnic groups. In some countries, like Morocco, young people are over-represented in police statistics. Some selection mechanisms in the treatment of cases by the police and justice can play a role and explain to some extent the higher proportion than the average young people from ethnic minorities, but these mechanisms and the situation Economic particularly difficult in facing these youth are not sufficient to explain the phenomenon. The vulnerability of some groups of young people because of their minority and / or socioeconomic status as an attractive target for adults involved in organized crime.

The detrimental effect of juvenile delinquency and violent victimization on an adolescent's life and on his or her well-being later in life has been documented by scholars and violent vicarious victimization has been found to be connected to the negative outcomes in some previous studies of adolescents. In addition, results reported by child development researchers have directed attention to a more complex issue, namely that children who experienced both child abuse and witnessed domestic violence had worse later in life, such as becoming a perpetrator of violence, than other children .

Violent behavior is a notorious factor in our lives and in our personal Interrelationships (school, partners, etc.), despite theoretical and practical efforts to combat it. Several conceptualizations have been proposed to explain this violence. In the first place we can highlight the Classical School, which conceives Man as a free and rational being, capable of making decisions according to the advantages and disadvantages associated with a given action. In contrast to this is the Positive School, which has developed psychobiological theories and proposed methods rooted in natural sciences to explain delinquency. In the twentieth century, sociological theories were introduced, considering crime as a social phenomenon and pointing out social conditions as the genesis of deviant behavior (understood as a set of ?infractions? which are committed in a given ...