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- Explain the relationship between juvenile delinquency rates and modern social conditions, such as poverty, crowding, and family dysfunction. How can these relationships be addressed to help decrease juvenile crime rates?
- Considering the increasing proportion of juvenile female arrests, discuss whether the needs of female delinquents can be met by the same programs that serve males. What can help in the treatment of juvenile female delinquents?
- The most common goal of students committing violent acts at school was retribution, and further research showed not an absence of values, but a value system where violence was completely acceptable. What social factors are causing value systems where violence is acceptable?
- Describe feminist theories of criminology and explain how they can be applied to modern juvenile female gang members.
- Explain delinquency as presented by social process theory and Hirschi’s impulse control theory. Analyze how these might affect juvenile treatment programs.
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Running head: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Week 3 Project: Juvenile Delinquency
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Week 3 Project: Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile delinquency is a significant problem affecting the social order and functioning of
communities. The society is endeavoring to devise effective measures to mitigate juvenile
delinquency. Criminologists have tried to understand the causes of crime and how it correlates to
the fields of sociology, criminology, and psychology in a bid to identify solutions to this
problem. Notably, many studies and theories have emerged to understand the social aspects that
drive individuals into deviance. Research has demonstrated that juvenile delinquency is caused
by an interplay between socio-economic and environmental factors while many theories continue
to be put forward to explain the phenomenon. Pertinent issues in the quest of the modern society
to understand and address juvenile delinquency include its correlation with social, economic, and
environmental factors, the increasing incidences of female delinquency, the contributory or
causative factors of antisocial behavior, and the positions taken by different theories to illuminate
the root cause of the problem and the viable intervention measures.
Relationship between Juvenile Delinquency Rates and Modern Social Conditions
Juvenile delinquency is a major problem beleaguering society today. Sociological
theories of crime have shown a relationship between delinquency and various social conditions.
This is especially because crime rates tend to be higher among some social groups than others
(Hoeve et al., 2009). Some of the factors are associated with delinquency in modern society
include social class, environment, and parenting style. Social class is an identity based on socioeconomic status. Poverty or low socio-economic status limits access to social privileges and this
can encourage children to engage in criminal behavior (Wikström & Treiber, 2016). Poverty
means that a person does not have the means to fulfill basic demands. One may be forced into
deviance to feed the family or avoid going homeless. At the same time, poverty can force
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individuals to engage in drugs and substance abuse and join gangs due to despair, frustration, and
hopelessness. At the same time, poverty can drive parents to neglect their children by overly
focusing on earning a living (Wikström & Treiber, 2016). The children may be left on their own
and exposed to high risk of abuse.
Poor parenting or family dysfunction is also associated with the development of deviant
behavior in children. Children raised in hostile and broken families at a higher risk of becoming
delinquents (Hoeve et al., 2009). The social environment and surroundings, for example,
delinquent peers and presence of gangs in a neighborhood no doubt influence child delinquency.
However, if...
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