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Chapter 6
- Ask five or more people which factor they feel is the most important in preventing delinquency: family, schools, peers, or the justice system. Why?
- How do these four factors interact?
- How can the most important one influence the others?
- How can it be changed to decrease the rate of delinquency?
- Read the postings of your classmates. Respond to at least 2 of your classmates’ postings. Do you agree? Disagree? Why?
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Juvenile Deliquency
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On matters of juvenile delinquency, the advantages of proactivity outweigh retroactivity;
that is, prevention is better than cure. Juvenile delinquency prevention brings into play various
stakeholders of equal importance. The programs put in place to remedy juvenile delinquency are
interdependent and complementary; however, their unity lies in their common objective. The
objective is to assist children and their families at an early age to eradicate the likelihood of them
conflicting with the law. However, there are intervening factors, mainly family, schools, peers,
and the justice system. This essay seeks to critically examine the most crucial factor in
preventing delinquency, its in...