The Importance Of Juvenile Delinquency

Juvenile delinquency is a main concern in our criminal justice system today. There are so many kids in our society today that don’t know what it is like to be successful for various of different reasons. Many of these kids are being brought through the system at very young ages. They don’t know what it’s like to finish high school because some of them end up dropping out because they struggle so much. They have no idea what college education is like, which leads them down a path to crime. Many people see these kids as lowlife teenagers who cannot be saved. Their only option is it be put to a juvenile detention facility and be locked up until they are 18. Many of these kids are teenagers who have disabilities. “It is estimated that between

2005 National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice 2001; Roxalski et al. 2008; Wang et al. 2005; White and Loeber 2008). The lack of awareness of disability and the lack of action across the system that addresses disability and impairments of at risk children make difficult situations more complicated. These individuals who need special education need to be taught differently than kids who do not have disabilities. In the past there’ve been many different treatment program that have been tried for juvenile offenders. If you take Special education programs that are being used in schools and create a treatment program based on that, you can have a successful program for these teenagers. It is important to identify reasons why adolescence are committing delinquent acts, previous treatment programs, how special education is run in schools, and the differences between pull out programs versus integrated programs in schools to support special education programs in juvenile

The author examined that extent to parenting practices rise to different adolescent personalities which can lead to delinquency. ”In contrast to conforming youth, delinquents tend to define situations in a manner that justifies aggressive and antisocial behavior” (Kuei,L, Gene, B, YI, C, Ronald, S 2007 P 4). Essentially, if parents do not care about their kids, don’t know where they are all of the time, there could be a big reason why they are associating with the wrong group of people and getting involved in crime and aggressive behavior. Also could affect them becoming antisocial if they hang out with the wrong group of people, they may not socialize with other people that might not be as “cool” as them. Another important area that can be looked is how an adolescent interacts with others and how important that area is in a child’s life. In the article “Anticipating Early Fatality: Friends, Schoolmates and Individual Perceptions of Fatality on Adolescent Risk Behavior”, it explains how a child’s social life is one