Elaborating the Youth Crime and Juvenile Delinquency (Essay Sample)

Youth Crime
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Youth Crime
Criminal acts have a high prevalence and incidence during the adolescence stage compared to earlier or later ages. Juvenile delinquency defines unlawful acts committed by an individual aged less than the legal age of an adult. Various factors such as genetics or parental inheritance, low self-esteem, peer pressure, and lack of peer guidance during adolescence are some of the contributing factors to youth delinquency ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"zV2hOWMO","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Schepers, 2017)","plainCitation":"(Schepers, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":2840,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/49KPYLKC"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/49KPYLKC"],"itemData":{"id":2840,"type":"article-journal","title":"Causes of the causes of juvenile delinquency: Social disadvantages in the context of Situational Action Theory","container-title":"European journal of criminology","page":"143-159","volume":"14","issue":"2","author":[{"family":"Schepers","given":"Debbie"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Schepers, 2017). The paper agrees with the quote “When we see a young person committing a crime, we shouldn’t think “what’s wrong with the young person?” We should ask ourselves, “What is it about that young person’s environment and social world that led him to make those choices?”
In many countries, juvenile delinquency and crimes are a significant social problem. They pose imminent dangers on the affected generations in the future. According to ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"vFuLnWoo","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Sabo, 2017)","plainCitation":"(Sabo, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":2849,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/M5QENKZQ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/M5QENKZQ"],"itemData":{"id":2849,"type":"article-journal","title":"Social Relationships in Young Offenders: Relevance to Peers, Poverty, and Psychological Adjustment","author":[{"family":"Sabo","given":"Victoria"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} Sabo (2017), the family environment constitutes of the micro-level factors that tremendously contribute to the upbringing of a child with good morals. In a society, the family represents a basic unit structure that has a considerable influence of the development and personality of an individual. It is a foundation for cognitive, growth, attitude development, and adjustment and not only is it essential in childhood but all stages of life including adolescence ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"9r74iM97","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Kumar, 2015)","plainCitation":"(Kumar, 2015)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":2839,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/3CIA4FYF"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/3CIA4FYF"],"itemData":{"id":2839,"type":"article-journal","title":"Family Environment and Juvenile Delinquency","container-title":"VEETHIKA-An Interdisciplinary International Research Journal","page":"7","volume":"1","issue":"2","source":"Zotero","abstract":"As the child spends most of the time in the family his early life experiences in that family lay the ground work for the type of future behaviour and the development of attitudes values and a life style. He may turn into a delinquent or a good citizen of a nation. So the aim of the present article is to focus on the family factors associated with juvenile delinquency.","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Kumar","given":"Alok"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015",9]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Kumar, 2015). Therefore, the experiences of an individual during early stages of life contribute to his or her conduct and values in the future.
There are two types of family organizations that may or not influence the development of juvenile delinquency. ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"dtCYRFjf","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Sabo, 2017)","plainCitation":"(Sabo, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":2849,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/M5QENKZQ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/M5QENKZQ"],"itemData":{"id":2849,"type":"article-journal","title":"Social Relationships in Young Offenders: Relevance to Peers, Poverty, and Psychological Adjustment","author":[{"family":"Sabo","given":"Victoria"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} Sabo (2017) explains that the family may or fail to provide children with psychological and physical needs, security, cater to their wishes, or come to aid in times of problems. Thus, children who grow in families that demonstrate companionship, and acceptance tend to exhibit good conducts in their adolescence years while those that face inconsistency, rejection, and hostile family upbringing, develop an unhealthy personality that contributes to delinquent behaviors ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"89l3QKFv","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Kumar, 2015)","plainCitation":"(Kumar, 2015)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":2839,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/3CIA4FYF"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/3CIA4FYF"],"itemData":{"id":2839,"type":"article-journal","title":"Family Environment and Juvenile Delinquency","container-title":"VEETHIKA-An Interdisciplinary International Research Journal","page":"7","volume":"1","issue":"2","source":"Zotero","abstract":"As the child spends most of the time in the family his early life experiences in that family lay the ground work for the type of future behaviour and the development of attitudes values and a life style. He may turn into a delinquent or a good citizen of a nation. So the aim of the present article is to focus on the family factors associated with juvenile delinquency.","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Kumar","given":"Alok"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015",9]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Kumar, 2015). Therefore, when a young person commits a crime, it is crucial to examine familial background because a child who grows feeling unwanted and emotionally insecure tend to proceed to be delinquent in adolescent years and adult criminality.
Peer groups are significantly relevant socializing agents in an adolescent social environment that influences a youth’s decisions that may lead to criminal behaviors. As a person develops from childhood regardless of the presence or absence of parental supervision, they spend more time with their peers ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"3GLMLRb4","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Bazon & Estev\\uc0\\u227{}o, 2012)","plainCitation":"(Bazon & Estevão, 2012)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":2850,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/4XN2ZSPQ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/4XN2ZSPQ"],"itemData":{"id":2850,"type":"article-journal","title":"Juvenile Criminal Behavior and Peers' Influences: A Comparative Study in the Brazilian Context","container-title":"Universitas Psychologica","page":"1157-1166","volume":"11","issue":"4","source":"SciELO","ISSN":"1657-9267","shortTitle":"Juvenile Criminal Behavior and Peers' Influences","author":[{"family":"Bazon","given":"Marina Rezende"},{"family":"Estevão","given":"Ruth"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2012",12]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Bazon & Estevão, 2012). The consequence is that peer groups contribute to a significant influence with the need of social belonging, the perception of self, and the capacity for social comparison that sensitizes adolescents to conformity and the need to adapt. However, peer relationships may foster disadvantageous youth development. A person’s delinquent behavior develops as they socialize with peers that exhibit deviant personalities. Such peer groups tend to be models of rewarding antisocial values leading to the development of social circles that perpetuate crime in the society. Notably, youths join peer groups to seek the feeling of belonging and fill other voids that their families fail to offer during their development from childhood ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"jzQBGNqN","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Bazon & Estev\\uc0\\u227{}o, 2012)","plainCitation":"(Bazon & Estevão, 2012)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":2850,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/4XN2ZSPQ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/4283279/items/4XN2ZSPQ"],"itemData":{"id":2850,"type":"article-journal","title":"Juvenile Criminal Behavior and Peers' Influences: A Comparative Study in the Brazilian Context","container-title":"Universitas Psychologica","page":"1157-1166","volume":"11","issue":"4","source":"SciELO","ISSN":"1657-9267","shortTitle":"Juvenile Criminal Behavior and Peers' Influences","author":[{"family":"Bazon","given":"Marina Rezende"},{"family":"Estevão","given":"Ruth"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2012",12]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Bazon & Estevão, 2012). Therefore, the relevance of peer relationships and the need to address unfilled family relationships influence the development of delinquent behaviors during adolescence.