The Influence of the Internet on Juvenile Delinquency Psychological Formation and Preventive Measures
1. Introduction
With the continued acceleration of the Internet, people's life has been impacted. The emergence of Internet games, micro-blog, Internet map and Internet searching has made people feel more convenient than before. However, In the midst of happiness, people also witness the great influence of Internet on juvenile delinquency of young teenagers, arousing much attention of the public. This essay is focused on the discussion of negative effect of Internet on teenagers, the influences of Internet on juvenile delinquency psychological formation and related prevent measures to reduce juvenile crime.
2. The Influence of the Internet on Juvenile Delinquency Psychological Formation
Since the Internet management lags far behind the development of the Internet, the Internet is filled with a lot of bad information, this bad information will have seriously negative impact on teenagers who are in puberty and curiosity and imitation. In the process of long-term exposure to this bad information, psychological deviation of youth can be easily caused, as well as criminal impulsion and implementation of crime.
2.2.1 The Influence of the Internet on the Psychological Formation of Sexual Offence
The stimulation and temptation of pornography on the Internet easily cause the teenagers form incorrectly sexual consciousness or criminal mentality. The Internet's openness also makes it a dump filled with information. As an open platform, all kinds of culture, information can be unlimitedly spread, among which necessarily filled with some pornographic and obscenity web pages against the youth’s physical health. At present, the Internet was ...
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...rward relevant preventive measures in order to solve the serious problem. The internet is like nourishing their bodies. From a public-health perspective, teenagers’ surfing on the Internet should be paid attention to. Teenagers are the future of the development of a country, they are easily attracted by something because they are curious for everything at this period. The severe situation of teenagers’ crime has caused people’s attention. Most teenagers do things against the law because they “learn” a lot from the Internet. They are interested in the porn websites, images or videos and they are curious about the violence and they want to experience this kind of life without previewing bad consequences. Therefore, it is really necessary to make a further research on the influence of the Internet on juvenile delinquency psychological formation and preventive measures.
The first benefit that would result from censoring the internet would be the protection of the mind. When children are doing homework online, they frequently get distracted by the presence of other websites. This often interferes with their progress. In cases of teenagers, the websites they are commonly sidetracked by are pornography websites. Pornography has negative effects on the brain because it makes people lose their innocence and promotes v...
With over 759 million registered domain names, the Internet has proved to be the definitive source of information (Hunter). Covering a full spectrum of subjects and services, it is an entity that we can not do without. However, despite all this usefulness, more than 14 percent of all websites are dedicated to pornography (Ward). To further worsen the matter, more than 13 percent of all searches made daily are
Juvenile Delinquency has been a big issue since the mid-1980s. It has declined since the mid 1990s. the number of juvenile homicide offenders have tripled between 1984 and 1994. some states started taking tougher legislative as far back as from late 1970s. since the beginning of the legislation; reformers are trying to prevent and make less punishing procedures the importance of education and employment. We could focus on the minority children since there is a higher percentage of juvenile offenders come from minority family. Polices began to change in recent years to treat juveniles as adults. Many factors that changed in our societies today, which has influenced the increase in juvenile crime such as, increase in guns, drugs, and from violent inspiration in our communities. The different between the settings in our society is what increased the increase in juvenile crime. More single parents home is an example of a setting that has changes since the late 1990s. These structural changes in the lifestyle and development of a child can affect his/her
The internet is a wonderful learning tool. Of course, like any good thing, the Internet comes with its ups and downs. There are several things that aren’t suitable for any child on the internet, such as pornography, violent material, adult chat rooms, and racist or hateful sites, there are even websites about cheating in schools.
Pornography on the Internet is affordable, available, and abundant. One can easily find websites for viewing this type of material. Although the reports on the actual number of these sites vary, the availability and accessibility of the sites are rarely disputed. Some critics of this form of expression or form of obscenity believe that the pornography itself can cause pornography addictions. Internet pornography does not produce addicts, but rather the propensity to be a pornography addict already exists within individuals by the time they reach adulthood and sustains itself within those individuals.
This world has become immersed in online media from socializing on networking sites to seeking information on search engines. People of all ages have become reliant on online media, but the most engaged users are the younger, more easily impacted generations. Although there are many positive uses for online media, there are many negative uses as well. Unfortunately, it is all too easy for these negative effects to impede upon the perceptions of adolescents. Some countries have been trying to reduce this effect by expelling the inappropriate content of online media ("Influence on Children Media...”). However, in the United States, children are thrown in the waves, expected to stay afloat in this massive sea, but many are being dragged under the surface by the nefarious temptations media creates. Content that is not appropriate for the young, growing minds of children are easily accessible; a myriad of devices may be used to access this material, all at the click of a button. Without adult content filters on online media, adolescents of various ages are exposed to dangerous conceptions. A world of pornography, violence, and public humiliation lay in the user’s fingertips.
What good can possibly come from teenagers spending so much time on social media sites and at times communicating with complete strangers? To many people social media has several benefits such as building confidence and socializing skills. But, as technology continues to advance rapidly, social media becomes a huge part of our daily lives and changes the means of communication by far. Technology and social media exposes teenagers to so much unwanted and unmonitored content. Part of what they are getting exposed to is great amounts of sexual content and violence. Consequently, creating several negative effects that now outweigh the positives ones. Teenagers today are at a higher risk of cyber bullying through online shaming, exposure to uncensored sexual content, and affecting the development of self-character. Even so, if social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and many others might have some positive influences, social media is also known to have serious negative effects on the psychological development of teenagers’ self-character formation, which should be a huge concern in today’s society.
The social environment of teens holds an enormous influence on how the teens act and behave. Teens are easily influenced by their surroundings and they look to others for guidance. Their behavior results from that of the parent and peer influences. Parents play a particularly influential role in their child’s life and it is up to them to make sure that they are leading their sons or daughters in the right directions. A teen’s peers also play a large role in how the teen behaves when the parents are not around. A teen’s social environment, consisting of family and peers, plays a vital role in their life, therefore becoming the ultimate cause of juvenile delinquency.
Juvenile Delinquency has been a big issue since the mid-1980s. It has declined since the mid 1990s. the number of juvenile homicide offenders has tripled between 1984 and 1994. some states started taking tougher legislative as far back as from the late 1970s. since the beginning of the legislation; reformers have been trying to prevent and make less punishing procedures the importance of education and employment. We could focus on the minority children since there is a higher percentage of juvenile offenders come from minority family. Polices began to change in recent years to treat juveniles as adults. Many factors that changed in our society today, which has influenced the increase in juvenile crime such as, increase in guns, drugs, and from violent inspiration in our communities. The difference between the settings in our society is what increased the increase in juvenile crime. More single parents home is an example of a setting that has changed since the late 1990s. These structural changes in the lifestyle and the development of a child can affect his/her
In recent years, pornography has established itself as perhaps the most controversial topic arising out of the use of the Internet. The easy availability of this type of sexually explicit material has caused a panic among government officials, family groups, religious groups and law enforcement bodies and this panic has been perpetuated in the media.
Social scientists have analyzed the factors that affect juvenile delinquency. Single parenting, violence in media, unfair social structure, poverty, and the lack parental guidance and discipline are factors of juvenile delinquency. Each of the factors plays a part in delinquency, but mass media has the starting part being the role that molds the dispositions that leads to juvenile crime. Our everyday lives are immersed with internet activity, television, radio, music, books, and video games. We are moving toward a world of mass media environment. Media in general has a powerful impact on whoever wants to truly define and understand the message that is being delivered.
First, police could reinforce the combating action to the internet obscenity. With development of technology, people can comfortably connect with world everywhere through the internet, such as different social websites and smartphone applications. However, they also connive compensated dating, because teenagers can search their ‘clients’ easily on those platforms. To uproot the origin of the immoral transaction, one suggestion is reinforcing the combating activity to eliminate channel for compensated dating.
There is no one certain theory, regarding juvenile delinquency, that can completely distinguish all the determining factors that makes youth turn to crime; although, the study of all these theories and ideas can bring criminologist one step closer to uncovering the truth about juvenile delinquency. Only the further understanding of juvenile delinquency can help the prevention of future juvenile offenders. This paper will focus on the individual factors of delinquency, as well as the social elements, and provide an explanation of how the combination of the two elements may cause children to engage in criminal activity.
Juvenile delinquency is one of the major social issues in the United States today. Juvenile delinquency, also known as juvenile offending, is when “a violation of the law committed by a juvenile and not punishable by death or life imprisonment” (Merriam-webster.com). Although we have one justice system in America, the juvenile system differs from the adult juvenile system. Most juvenile delinquents range from as low as the age of seven to the age of seventeen. Once the delinquent or anyone turns the age of eighteen, they are considered an adult. Therefore, they are tried as an adult, in the justice system. There are many different reasons why a child would commit crime, such as mental and physical factors, home conditions, neighborhood environment and school conditions. In addition, there are a variety of effects that juvenile justice systems can either bad effects or good effects. Finally there are many different solutions that can reduce juvenile delinquency. As a result, juvenile delinquency is a major issue and the likeliness of it can be reduced. In order to reduce juvenile delinquency there has to be an understanding of the causes and the effects.
Nowadays, children and adolescents spent a considerable part of their time on the internet. Media has turned out to be a very useful tool in many fields such as education, arts, science, sports, and culture. Over the recent decades, there has been a surge in the use of media by the younger generations and concern has been raised about the effect of media on children because of research reports of long term negative effects. Media use is a double edged weapon with both advantages and disadvantages. Since Internet is the easiest way now for children to use so as to watch and observe anything they want such as movies, games, news and pictures, also this useful tool is used by children for harming themselves