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Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

Research Studies, School Delinquency, and Disruptive Behaviors

programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Adolescence and Self Esteem Factors

Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

Should the ICAO Charter Articles 39 and 39 be Revised?

used, the aim was for a difference, but in todays industry with the high level of development it is quite possible for there to be...

The Vicious Circle of Child Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency, and Future Abuse

windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

Delinquency Concept Evaluation

This usually involves some type of probation arrangement or counseling/treatment (The Center for Young Womens Development Handbook...

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...

Prevention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency

all under the influence of some substance (Califano and Colson, 2005, p. 34). Another study found that adolescents who are isolat...

Theories on Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reasons

duplicated in the behaviors of youths. Through an analytical assessment of the current literature and an integrated view of the r...

Juvenile Delinquency and the Group Home

who find themselves on the wrong side of the law as adults is the most effective means for accomplishing that goal. Those who opp...

Female Juvenile Delinquency Influences

juveniles, however, in this paper the student wants to consider the female juveniles only. There are a range of theorists,...

Canada, Victimization, and Juvenile Delinquency

reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...

Juvenile Delinquency and Religiosity

rules - some written, some spoken, others explicitly followed by virtue of inherent knowledge but all universally understood withi...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Addressing the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency

statistics, all incidents of juvenile delinquency are not entered into these databases. Statistic provide only part of the story ...

Juvenile Gang Activity

While gangs are a part and parcel of the culture today, the concept of juvenile delinquency is rather elusive. Many do not dub chi...

Juvenile Delinquency Among Females

experienced some form of abuse - whether sexual, physical and/or emotional (Juvenile Justice Experts Should Focus on Girls Unique ...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Crime, Criminology Theory, and Delinquency

of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

Juvenile Arrests 2001

the problem of juvenile violence" (Snyder, 2003, p. 4). Arrests of juveniles peaked in 1994, then dropped every year from 1995 thr...

Robert K. Merton's Social Strain Theory

In seven pages the delinquency social strain theory of Robert K. Merton is examined in this overview. Seven sources are cited in...

Immigration Effects

cost of keeping the immigrants in jail simply eats money unnecessarily. Another problem that plagues this country is poverty. The...