“Nearly every year the FBI arrests more than 3300 young adults under the age of 18” (Khan).Juvenile delinquency can be caused by the influence gangs,bullying, and bad parenting. This topic caught my attention because there a lot of kids getting arrested each year for crimes committed and kids getting involved in gangs, also kids getting access to weapons,drugs, or getting bully by other people. However juvenile delinquency can be prevented by offering bullying prevention, violence prevention curriculums and mentoring programs.
“If gangs are dealing drugs or selling stolen merchandise, gang members can become wealthy. When teens sees this behavior they want in on the money”. “Gang members who do drugs themselves and caused other neighborhoods teens to do drugs”. “If a juveniles lives in a neighborhood controlled by gangs, they may look up to gangs for their power and wealth”. Gangs can caused fear in the neighborhood and terrorize others. “This activities can cause harm or land juveniles in prison or detention centers.”(hirby).Teens can learn additional bad behavior from those around them. friendship will probably form and be introduced to other troubled teens and make bad choices. “Youth who a little parental oversight can be easily influenced by gang membership and glamorized violence in popular culture.” That growing number of offender appear to be younger and their crimes are more violent and that law in some states provide tough penalties on juveniles offenders. “ Increasing violence among teenagers and other youth appears to have contributed to a nationwide crime”.peer delinquency is one of the strongest predictors of delinquency that researchers have identified. “A particular issue of concern in the realm of juvenile ...
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Introduction: Recidivism or, habitual relapses into crime, has time and time again proven to be an issue among delinquents, which thereby increases the overall juvenile prison population. This issue has become more prevalent than what we realize. Unless a unit for measuring a juvenile’s risk of recidivism is enacted and used to determine a system to promote effective prevention, than the juvenile prison population will continue to increase. Our court system should not only focus on punishing the said juvenile but also enforce a program or policy that will allow for prevention of recidivism. So the question remains, how can recidivism in the juvenile prison population be prevented so that it is no longer the central cause for increased juvenile delinquency? Simply put, we must create a means of measuring juvenile’s level of risk and in turn, form an effective rehabilitation program that will decrease their risk level for future recidivism.
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Juvenile delinquency is committing criminal acts or offenses by a young person, generally involving people under the age of eighteen. That is what this research proposal is about. For my research proposal my research question is what can cause or deter juvenile delinquency in first time offenders? I feel that this is an important question to be asking, because in our society there is too much juvenile delinquency and if we can use this research to figure out what can cause and deter this phenomenon then we could sincerely help a lot of adolescents.
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