Juvenile Delinquency

young ill-doing 1 Juvenile Delinquency Features, Causes and Solutions Shen Cheng Class cx Teacher Stephanie February 29, 2012 Juvenile Delinquency 2 Outline I. Introduction Thesis statement Nowadays, there is no denying that Juvenile Delinquency has become one of the hottest affectionate issues. The features, causes, and solutions of Juvenile Delinquency leave alone be discussed slightly in this research. II. The features of Juvenile Delinquency A. The aver climb on age of youngs who commit crimes tends to be pitiableer B. Knowledge take aim of the jejune offenders is low C. Juvenile offenders find oneself involved in sinister gangs and tend to be in groups.D. Juvenile viciousness is prone to be overmuch violent. E. Criminal means of novel offenders argon much mature. F. Juvenile delinquency is occasional and at ergodic III. The causes of Juvenile Delinquency A. Social factors. B. Family factors C. School factors D. individual(a) factors IV. The solutions to Juven ile Delinquency A. Prevention from individual B. Prevention from family C. Prevention from give lessons Juvenile Delinquency 3 D. Prevention from society E. Prevention from justice V. Conclusion Juvenile Delinquency 4 Abstract With the fostering of economics and the improvement of society, the consecrate of jejune delinquency is at a high level.Juvenile delinquency has already been a very hot social issue nowadays. The causes of juvenile delinquency have been summarized in this research, much(prenominal) as personal? family? school and society factors what features juvenile delinquency have and how we can control the delinquency effectively so that the youths can farm up healthily have also been discussed in this research. Keywords juvenile delinquency, causes, features, control. Juvenile Delinquency 5 Juvenile Delinquency In recent years, juvenile delinquency has been a prominent social issue and attracted the attention of the whole society at the same time.Experts, scholar s and volunteers who ar avid about the keep onion of juvenile delinquency have come up with a lot of insightful ideas about how to control juvenile crimes. However, its still not that effective to decrease the high rate of juvenile delinquents. According to statistics, not only did the number of juvenile delinquency increase, but also the types of juvenile delinquency have become varied. Juvenile delinquency occupies the highest proportion of all crimes. It accounts for more than than 70% of the total.The parcel of juvenile (under 15 years old) committing crimes accounts for more than 70% of the juvenile felonious cases (Bang. 2004). Today, the juvenile crime has been regarded as the worlds third largest public nuisance. Juvenile delinquency not only endangers public security, but also affects a countrys stability. Therefore, how to bar and control juvenile delinquency effectively has become an essential task of the whole kind-hearted society. To solve this problem, we must know about the characteristics and causes of juvenile delinquency so that we can run a risk abstract methods to solve this problem effectively.The features of Juvenile Delinquency 1. The average age of juveniles who commit crimes tends to be lower. A some years ago, the average age of juveniles committing crime was still older than 17, but now the average age is only about 15. 7 years (Gao. 2010). Juvenile Delinquency 6 2. The education level of the juvenile offenders is low Most juvenile offenders have a low education level and some of them are even illiterate. Lack of education readys them have wrong grades and attitude towards life, which causes them to commit crime at last. Lack of education is a major feature of juvenile delinquency. . Juvenile offenders get involved in sinister gangs and tend to be in groups. On the one hand, young people are dead of adequate physical strength, intelligence, courage and experience. Thats why committing crimes individually is often diffi cult to succeed.They are more equivalently to commit crimes together with separate(a) members. On the other hand, young people are much eager to get what they cant have both in schools and families. Then some crazy people take advantage of them and divide them into small groups which usually form the predecessor of criminal gangs (Abruzzese. 1997). . Juvenile delinquency is prone to be more violent. According to statistics, property crime is the main type of juvenile delinquency. The top five crimes are robbery, rape, theft, intentional injury causing death, and murder. The young offenders nowadays use more cruel criminal means to achieve their objectives than before (McNeece. & Roberts. 1997)5. Criminal means of juvenile offenders are more mature. Modus operandi of juvenile offenders inclines towards being more mature. Juvenile crimes in the past were mostly along with less criminal circumstances than Juvenile Delinquency 7 oday. In recent years, young offenders would prefer rigorous plans and hit division of who does what in their criminal behaviors. Today, young offenders seem to have a clear understanding of what they are doing, and some are even experienced in committing crimes (Li. 2007). 6. Juvenile delinquency is occasional and at random As young people are immature in both mental and physical growth, its common to see that they have frequent emotional fluctuations. Failing to understand things unspoiled and objectively and truehearted desires to monopolize pay off them easy to go on extreme ways.They would take some crazy actions on the spur of the moment which may suffering other innocent people badly. The causes 1. Social factors. The social humanity scenes are corrupting young peoples innocent hearts. Juveniles cant live without a colorful world which also is full of various lures. Its inevitable that disharmonious and evil phenomena comprise along with the rapid development of economics and spiritual civilization. First, numerous st udents graduated from colleges cant find a job, which made bad impacts on young peoples motivation to study, even worse they may be against or give up learning.High unemployment rate causes that a lot of adolescents to have slide fastener to do. Going on in this way, these young dawdlers would have tendency to commit crimes. Second, films, televisions and the internet can distribute unhealthy things, like violence, Juvenile Delinquency 8 obscenity and so forth. For example, there was a twat case which happened five years ago, the criminal suspect Zhenghong Lin(20 years old) and Cai Jiang(19 years old) watched a famous Hong Kong sport You cant be an abscond forever and then imitated the way how to kidnap in the drama.They abducted their title-holders father Mr Wu , a mine owner , for RMB 60,0000 (Yu. 2010). Third, the obvious wealth gap and the wrong value money is supreme actually work youths. Fourth, theft? robbery? pornography? gambling? fighting and other criminal cases wh ich happen in our community have also influenced juveniles directly. 2. Family factors. Undesirable family education and indifferent family purlieu can result in irreversible harm to juveniles. The family is the first class of young people parents are the first teachers. A proper family education is extremely important for youths to grow healthily.Incorrect home education entrust cause serious psychological blocks to adolescents and then they will finally form a wrong sensible horizon of life. First, parental discord, divorce, frequent quarrels, offensive words and destructive behavior will lead to mental harm to juveniles second, familys financial problems will limit the childs pocket money and also make him feel inferior in front of other children who have wealthy families. Hence, some children will get what they want in an extreme way, like stealing and mugging. Third, the methods of parental education are violent and crude.Some parents all scold or beat their children when t hey make mistakes indeliberately or they fail exams. This heavy stress will emphatically cause mental Juvenile Delinquency 9 problems to those immature adolescents fourth, some parents behaviors are out of order, like fooling around, gambling and riotous drinking, which will affect the juveniles world view badly fifth, some parents infract children and trim the ideological and lesson education, which will make these spoiled young people hard to digest by the society and eventually do something wrongful.If one person grows up in those inappropriate environments, his loneliness, low self-esteem, resentment and arrogance can easily be exploited by bad guys and he will commit crimes eventually. 3. School factors On the one hand, some middle and high schools are not undefendable of offering overall education. Those schools fabricate too much attention on academic records so that they ignore legal and mental education to juveniles, especially in some remote rural places. On the ot her hand, some irresponsible teachers who have low qualities often insult students and abuse corporal penalty.These extremely excessive actions will hurt innocent juveniles seriously since they are not mature enough to react and protect themselves correctly. These reasons also contribute to increasing delinquency rate because of youths resentment to school, even the society (Ga virtueay. 1995) 4. Individual factors spring chicken people are at the immature stage, both physically and mentally. Their ability to distinguish between right and wrong is not good enough and self-control is weak. Besides, they are also not capable of avoiding away temptations.Whats more, juveniles behave impulsively and have strong ability to imitate. Juvenile Delinquency 10 Thats why youths will be easily tempted to commit the crime. The solutions to Juvenile Delinquency In order to prevent and control juvenile delinquency validly, the society, families and schools should take the responsibility and fi nd efficient measures to help the young extension grow healthily. 1. Prevention from individual Even though young people are mentally and physically immature, they still have to handle problems and distinguish what is right or wrong.Families and school teachers should train them to comply with the law and ethics, tack together a correct outlook on life, enhance the ability to protect themselves and resist the temptation of criminal behaviors consciously. 2. Prevention from family The family is the cornerstone to control juvenile delinquency, which plays an absolutely significant role in the undefiled education system. Adolescents parents should take the initiative to absorb all kinds of knowledge first, such as legal knowledge, moral knowledge and things about how to educate children well.Only keep this way can parents be qualified to guide and influence their children properly. Whats more, parents neither have to spoil their children nor push so much pressure to adolescents. Inst ead, parents should also pay attention on childrens moral education, not just on the academic achievements. 3. Prevention from school Juvenile Delinquency 11 Its impossible for youngsters to grow healthily without school. More legal education should be provided by school. The youngsters must be taught to communicate with parents and teachers when facing unlawful attacks.Necessary skills to avoid dangers are also essential. In addition, teachers have to respect juveniles, care about them and give assistance when they need. Scolding and corporal punishment must be forbidden at school. 4. Prevention from society Building a favorable social environment for young people to grow healthily is one of the most important tasks in our society. organisation shoulders the responsibility to create more job opportunities for youths, reduce the unemployment rate of young people and minimize the effects of eroticism and violence on youngsters.Besides, media should promote more affirmative things, because positive publicity is helpful for juveniles to establish positive life attitudes (Gao. 2010). 5. Prevention from justice Improvement of legislation is a critical method to prevent juvenile delinquency. The government should consummate the legal system to protect young peoples rights and make all people realize that there would be a serious consequence if someone wanted to hurt the youths or tempted them to go the wrong ways (Kang. 2008). Conclusion Consequently, young people are the hereafter of a nation. Whether they can grow healthily matters most to a nations destiny.After analyzing the features and causes of Juvenile Delinquency 12 juvenile delinquency, we find that its an arduous and pressing work to control juvenile delinquency effectively. Hence, we should gather all useful methods which come from family, school and society to create an ideal environment for youths to grow healthily and keep away from committing crimes. Juvenile Delinquency 13 References Abruzzese, G. (1997). Juvenile Crime Approaching the Millennium. ledger of Delinquency now, 1 (5)23-25 Bang, H. (2004). Criminal Psychology. Beijing Science Press Galaway, B. , et al. (1995).Specialized foster family care for delinquent youth. federal official Probation 59 (30) 19-27. Gao, L. (2010). How to build defense system of Juvenile Delinquency. Beijing Modern Communication. Kang,S. (2008). Ten Years question of Juvenile Delinquency. Chongqing Chongqing Publishers. Li, S. (2007). 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