RESEARCH ARTICLE ANALYSIS

Criminal Justice

Research Article Analysis

Introduction

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the article regarding problem UK is facing in terms of crime against youth and its causes. Even at the present time crime exist in nearly every society; however, the rate of crime may vary from country to country depending upon the social and economic condition of that country. Many researchers have focused on identifying the various reasons of crimes among people; although it has been identified that rate of crime can be minimized by stopping young people in doing crime. Several laws have been made in order to find the causes of crime as well as to stop or reduce the rate of crime. In this connection, social condition of an individual has been identified as the focal stimuli, which leads a young person to commit a crime. In this paper, the policies formulated by different government of United Kingdom in the past 14 years would be reviewed as to assess the extent to which the policies has appropriately identified social causes of crime among young people also known as juvenile delinquency.

Research Design

Qualitative design is used in completing this article because Qualitative designs are emergent and flexible, standing in stark contrast to quantitative research designs in which a hallmark feature is their fixed and predetermined nature. Qualitative work is sometimes characterized as “messy,” not because the researcher is sloppy but because the process is not strictly controlled and must be adapted to the realities of the environment. Designs often rest on inductive approaches to knowledge development.

Juvenile Delinquency

The term juvenile delinquency refers to the illegal or antisocial attitude or behavior of children or adolescents. Undoubtedly juvenile delinquency has gained much attention since the last century as it is noted as growing problems, which is expanding every day. This problem is not only present in UK but also worldwide. Juvenile delinquency is one of the socially disruptive actions to be otherwise prescribed by law and morals created and accepted by society. The juvenile laws were introduced in England nearly a century before, which is to hear the cases of children under a separate law; however, it was not until the late 60s when this area has gathered much attention, and the juvenile laws was followed (Barak, 2004).

Understanding of Problem

It is important to understand the problem UK is facing in terms of crime against youth, and its causes so as to review the extent to which policies of UK government in the last 14 years addresses the social causes of crimes among youth and to assess the level of its effectiveness. Juvenile crime has increased alarmingly in recent times and becoming an issue of growing social concern generated by both the quantitative increase, for their progressive qualitative hazard. Juvenile crime is also a feature of societies that have reached a certain level of prosperity and, according to authoritative analysis, juvenile crimes are more common in UK, USA and other developed countries (Braithewaite, ...