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of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...
gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...
While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...
that depression may be a risk factor. Depression causes many different feelings and conditions such as the inability to concentrat...
in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...
a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...
rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...
as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...
windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...
by which to vent their anger, which can translate into juvenile delinquency. It is important for the student to realize that aggr...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the current state of juvenile delinquency in America in a consideration of various treatments...
In ten pages this paper examines the linkage between juvenile delinquency and illiteracy. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograp...
programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...
In nine pages this paper examines such issues as delinquency, dieting, alcohol, drugs, and sex in a consideration of peer and pare...
In eight pages this paper examines child behavior and juvenile delinquency with a consideration of parental roles and influences u...
reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...
as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...
Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...
compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...
do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...
all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
first began to describe a recognizable pattern of birth defects that are attributable to alcohol exposure in the late 1960s. Since...
This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...
down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...
try to negotiate the labels and in fact, they "attempt to disavow their deviant imputations" (Adams, 2003). These theorists do not...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...
of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...