Top Research Papers on Juvenile Delinquency

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IN PSYCHIATRY, as in any other branch of medicine, diagnosis and as full as possible an understanding of etiology and pathology are prerequisites to the prescribing of a treatment program. Unfortunately, in problems of delinquency, often the factors at play are more complex than in most diseases and, therefore, treatment needs are also more complex amid less clearly defined. Delinquency, of course, is not a diagnosis but a symptom. The delinquent act is like fever or a swelling; the factors underlying it are multiple and varied. I shall try, somewhat in summary form, to describe treatment nee...

A plan of studying the juvenile delinquent is discussed, some conclusions that may be made from such a study are drawn, and a plan of training is proposed that the author believes will be more effective than the authors' present system.

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said on May 19, 1950: The United States is sadly neglecting its most precious assets, the citizens of tomorrow.

This book gives a full description of squint in all its aspects, beginning with the anatomy and ending with the reasons for unsatisfactory results in squint surgery.

It is interesting to note that the figures in Liverpool are three times greater than those for the rest of England, and there is a relative increase in the South as compared with the North.

It is concluded that juvenile crime appears to be part of a major problem, including adult crime, which involves social and economic considerations, and more exact information regarding the age-constitution of local populations is required to gauge properly the differences between the incidence of juvenile crime in different parts of the country.

Twenty boys, who were committed to a state institution as delinquents, participated in a short-term reading pro gram which provided structured self-instruction, high interest reading material, and reduced chances of failure.

SUMMARY Previous research exploring the formation and influence of peer relationships on male and female delinquency has found a strong connection between friendships with antisocial peers and involvement in delinquent activity. Although there has been a substantial amount of research exploring these relationships, the majority of studies have focused upon male adolescents. This qualitative study was designed to compare genders on the influence of peer relationships contributing to delinquent behavior. Information was obtained through interviews with 10 male and 10 female incarcerated juvenile...

The third threat has been the subject of correVspondence in this Journal started in the authors' issue of Dec. 27 by a letter from Mr Johnston Abraham, followed by a 'iuhter by Mr. R. F. West, Chairman of the Medical Group, of the Publishers Association.

SIR,-In your restrained and helpful leader (Feb. 2, p. 167) you speak of the Socialist Medical Association being "content with nothing that stops short of the socialization of medicine." May I enter a plea once more for the use of the word "nationalization " rather than "socialization " when we use the term in the sense of "any form of service which leads directly or indirectly to the profession as a whole becoming full-time salaried servants of the State." As I pointed out in my Cardiff address (Journal, March 17, 1945, p. 357), to " socialize " medicine may mean only to make medicine more ac...

The need, above all, to face some of the problems of today, increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and road accidents, and he thought that the ate and public bodies should take a more practical part in their solution.

The third threat has been the subject of correVspondence in this Journal started in the authors' issue of Dec. 27 by a letter from Mr Johnston Abraham, followed by a 'iuhter by Mr. R. F. West, Chairman of the Medical Group, of the Publishers Association.

Dr Goddard's final words are, " juvenile delinquency can be largely eradicated", and it is quite clear that this cannot be the case with a very large proportion of the mentally defectivre and psychopathic, for whom the only solution is permanent care in an institution.

The growth of any civilization depends upon the children who are the yardsticks to measure its success. Children are the most vulnerable group in the society, and they are in need of greatest social care. The changes in the society have influenced the children to commit crime and through these changes the juveniles are heading towards the path of crime. Certain factors are responsible for the juveniles to commit delinquent acts such as the negative influence from peer groups and other socio-economic factors. Juvenile Delinquency is a deliberate issue as a delinquent child can become a persiste...

Academic Credit According to the Ohio Department of Higher Education, one (1) semester hour of college credit will be awarded for each lecture hour. Students will be expected to work on out-of-class assignments on a regular basis which, over the length of the course, would normally average two hours of out-of-class study for each hour of formal class activity. For laboratory hours, one (1) credit shall be awarded for a minimum of three laboratory hours in a standard week for which little or no out-of-class study is required since three hours will be in the lab (i.e. Laboratory 03 hours). Where...

Association of Probation Officers began to give attention to problems that might arise if the experiences of f 1914-18 had to be endured again, for juvenile delinquency becomes a serious distraction when everyone is occupied in winning a war. The first World War found the community unprepared for any serious change in the behaviour of young people and when an increase in indictable offences occurred in 1916 hasty efforts were made to cope -with the situation by means of juvenile organisations’ committees. As a preliminary steep, in anticipation of a similar experience the National Executive Co...

It is interesting to note that the figures in Liverpool are three times greater than those for the rest of England, and there is a relative increase in the South as compared with the North.

In Bengal, diabetes is a very common disease and usually develops in early middle life, but most of the cases that one sees are in the fifth and sixth decades, and principally affects the educated middle class.

The analysis of statistical data available at official sites shows increasing interest and involvement of juveniles in heinous crimes.

The latest addition to the International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction is a sociological study of juvenile delinquency on regional lines. The author believes that oecological studies of delinquency afford a promising line of approach, supplementing statistical mass inquiries and prolonged studies of a few individual cases. He describes the nature, causes, and treatment of delinquency in the Borough of Cambridge, and in his task has received valuable information from authorities and officials. Dr. Mannheim found that during the five years 1941 to 1945 the average figure for ind...

After the Second World War increased political and economic interconnectedness in the West further promoted the transnational exchange of expertise and ideas of best practice, resulting in the emergence of common frameworks across jurisdictions. This chapter focuses on how religious, civic and official bodies responded to youth in the sixties, giving particular attention to international ideas around youth services and associations. It examines so-called ‘problem youths’. It identifies how debates on juvenile delinquency, which were directly connected with new manifestations of youth culture i...

From the beginning of January Ig42 the service is being dereserved by gradual steps in common with other scheduled occupations and the case of each individual officer of military age is being decided by the Ministry of Labour in consultation with the Home Office.

The Royal Medico-Psychological Association was recently invited to prepare a memorandum for tfr London County Council Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, and the Subcommittee entrusted with the preparation of this memorandum considered that they would most profitably formulate the principles governing normal social development as generally accepted by a psychiatrist.

A chapter on the mental growth of the child, precedes an attempt to correlate aetiological factors with the stages of child development and so to reveal the psychological basis determining the origins of susceptibility to delinquency. Here the general views of Aichhorn. Healy and Bronner, Kate Friedlander, Bowlby, Stott, Glucks and Bovet are briefly represented and examined. Most of the book consists of a vivid description of nine main types of delinquent character and of the most suitable psychological and environmental treatments applicable to children in each of these categories. Although t...

Perhaps less significant (and generally less popular) are such techniques as the parable, anecdote, field trip, panel, exhibition, etc. For the most part, the reports of actual practice tended to approximate rather well what the instructors indicated as &dquo;ideal&dquo;-a situation not exactly commonplace in higher education today. The tendency, in 1948 at least, was toward a rather significant allocation of time to the informal lecture and the discussion (5’0 per cent and more) and, what is to me surprising, about 10 per cent to the formal lec-

This course is designed to provide students with an overview of juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system. Specifically, the nature and extent of delinquency, explanatory models and theories: the juvenile justice system; history, philosophy, and evaluation of the juvenile court, juvenile court practices and procedures; the role of the police officer and the correctional officer. This is a highly interactive class and will include class discussions that will require the participation of every member of the course.

A core textbook for courses in juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice bringing together theories of delinquency and a clear description of how young offenders are processed through a complex, dynamic legal system. Offering balanced coverage of fundamentals, theory, correlates forms of misconduct and the juvenile justice system, the book also provides chapters which focus on a delinquent's return to the community and reintegration. Each chapter follows a five-point plan: introduction; perspectives (historical, legal and theoretical underpinnings of topic discussed); issues (principle points ...

The subject matter of this paper is the concept of juvenile delinquency, its conceptual distinction from the concept of juvenile crime and other forms of juvenile deviant behaviour. The conceptual framework of a phenomenon is never a matter of purely linguistic and terminological designation because the definition of a concept has a significant impact not only on the social response of public authorities but also on the attitude of individual members of the specific society towards the phenomenon. This issue is particularly important when it comes to the socially unacceptable phenomena, such a...

TRENDS IN JUVENILE DELINQUENCY This is a study on trends in juvenile delinquency. The study mentions, within the introduction, factors such as unemployment rates, high school dropout rates, poverty, and

IntroductionJuvenile delinquency has long been considered a critical social problem. In Thailand, it was reported that this group of young offenders has tendency intended to solve their problems with violent behaviors (Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board, 2009). It is crucial that adolescents' crime and deviant behaviors should be resolve because it may pervasively impact the children themselves, their family, as well as, other people around them. Previous adolescent crime and deviant behavior studies mainly focused on sociological factors like socialization, sub-cultu...

In The Delinquency Label Dr. Eisner starts with a rather loose definition of delinquency and then applies statistical methods to this social problem and arrives at some rather interesting conclusions about delinquency in the San Francisco area.

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In recent years, the incidence of juvenile delinquency has been increasing, posing a threat to the well-being of families and society. This urges the understanding of the involvement in delinquent behaviours among young male juvenile delinquents. The main objective of this study was to explore juvenile delinquent involvement among former young male juvenile delinquents. A phenomenology qualitative research design was utilised to explore the participants’ lived experiences and their involvement in juvenile delinquency. Eight (8) former young male juvenile delinquents aged 26 years old and below...

In the Chinese law,the terms of "juvenile delinquency" and "juvenile criminal law" have never existed,but "youth crime" is often used.And there is no "youth criminal law",not to mention "juvenile criminal law".It has been proved in practice that we need to establish the concepts of "juvenile delinquency" and "the juvenile criminal law" because they can summarize the crimes at this specific age more acurrately than other concepts of the crimes and the essential characters for the single crininal law.

In the 1990s, the interest in juvenile delinquency has grown substantially in the Netherlands as a result of an increase of serious crime, but also of specific events. In this paper we identify trends in juvenile delinquency in the Netherlands, based on police data as well as self-report studies. The over-all level of juvenile delinquency is fairly stable, but violence against persons shows a marked increase. Traditionally, the Dutch response to juvenile delinquency was mild, but probably due to changing crime patterns a trend has become discernible into the direction of tougher action. This t...

Media routinely reports about offences being committed by children. There is news of children charged with stealing money, snatching, house breaking, riding on motorcycles without a license, causing accidents, getting into fights, committing sexual abuse or even murder. Juvenile offence or crime, especially since it involves children, is a challenging phenomenon. Each incident of juvenile offence, irrespective of whether it is trivial or serious creates its own impact. This impact is determined by nature and extent of harm, age(s) of those involved, profile of the victim, reaction of the gener...

1. Problem Areas in Delinquency. Juvenile Curfew and the Courts: Judicial Response to a No-So-New Crime Strategy, C. Hemmins and K. Bennett. The Emperor's New Clothes: Theory and Method in Gang Field Research, C. John M. Hagedorn. Youth Gangs and Definitional Issues: When Is a Gang a Gang, and Why Does It Matter?, Finn-Aage Esbensen, L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Ni He, and Terrance J. Taylor. 2. Historical Foundations. The Juvenile Court Law in Cook County, Illinois, 1899, Hon. R.S. Tuthill. Early Chicago Contributions, Connie Frey. Origins of the Juvenile Court: Changing Perspectives on the Legal ...

To become a fully functional adult male, one prerequisite is essential: a job. In our society a person's occupation determines more than anything else what life he will lead and how others will regard him …for most young men, it is securing jobs consistent with their aspirations that is crucial, that provides a stake in the law-abiding world and a vestibule to an expanding series of opportunities: to marry, to raise a family, to participate in civic affairs, to advance economically and socially and intellectually.

Family plays an important role in the growing p ro cess of the young. Disputes between parents, breakdown of a family and improper ways of education will make the young develop ill personality or even commit an offence. Psychological treatment of family is a kind of effective way to prevent and correct juvenile delinquency.

The bulk of research and writing in criminology remains highly, if not intentionally, ethnocentric and culturally bound. The field does exhibit a growing awareness of the potential insights we might gain from research in political and judicial systems outside the boundaries of our own. This bibliography assembles literature on delinquency and the operation of juvenile judicial and correctional agencies around the world. The international focus of this volume sets it apart from others. Hartjen and Priyadarsini provide a comprehensive view of the research on youth criminology and juvenile justi...

Juvenile delinquency is fairly harmful to the society. According to the regulation of the law of preventing juvenile delinquency, we should follow special rules to prevent the minors from committing crimes, such as the rule of education and protection, and of comprehensive control. This precaution also has its own specialities, hence the different educational way from that of preventing adult crimes. In view of the psychological cause of juvenile delinquency, it is very important for us to conduct the education of psychological health with the minors, to persuad, treat and cure their emotions.

1. The constitutional psychopath or the psychopathic personality represents the most difficult group of all the mentally sick individuals with which the medical and legal professions have to deal. Particularly baffling are those psychopaths who show evidences of perversions in relation to their sexual drives. 2. The psychiatrist is in a position to recognize in many instances during the preadolescence years definite tendencies for these unstable children to incorporate into the framework of their disintegrated personalities sexual anomalies which are significant and have grave implications. We...

I have principally studied juvenile delinquents who were taken into reformatories; and the causes of their errors which were fund chiefly in their heredity and environment. The various results of my investigatim lespecting their heredity revealed that there were many insane or feeble-minded persons, Erni confirmed criminals among their cloae relatives. They seem to have inherited many defects from their parents, such as congenital weak character and mental degeneration. Especially, syphilis hereditaria was proved in 19.9% by means of Wasserman's reaction. The result of mental test proved none ...

It is possible that with changing economic and social conditions, the Gross and Net Reproduction of the Japanese Americans may rise in the future, but it is very improbable that they will ever reach the height of the early twenties. By the late twenties, the downward trend in fertility and upward trend in survival had set in. The Japanese in America have failed to become the demographic "dragon" that threatened to imperil the white race on the Pacific Coast. Instead, they have efficiently adapted themselves to the demographic way of life of other Americans.

This book gives an overview of some of the research done at the WODC on the subject of juvenile delinquency. It is divided into three parts: the system and the data, causal explanations an reactions of the juvenile justice system.

The tautology in the title of this book, which consists of five symposia published over a period of years in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , seems to portend somehow the repetitious nature of much of its content. Although one must, of necessity, expect to hear similar material over and over in wordfor-word recordings of yearly round tables on the same subject, one might hope that an editor would offer a more digestible concentrate. I should add that this book is a relatively big one; and, although Dr. Karpman, who chaired the original symposia, tries to summarize each in a most order...

This paper examines the effect of various “family variables” on the etiology of juvenile delinquency. These self-report data are unique in that they are from reports by parents of their child's beh...

The study was intended to find out the effectiveness of eclectic counseling in reducing the neuroticism level of juvenile delinquents. The sample for the study was 47 convicted juveniles from Tamilnadu, India. All the samples were boys. Purposive sampling design was used. Demographic datasheet and Eysenck personality questionnaire for juniors were used for the study. Based on the test results, eclectic counselling was provided for a period of three months and the participants were assessed again. Before intervention, the mean value of neuroticism among the juvenile delinquents is 12.51 which i...

DELINQUENCY persists as one of our most disturbing social problems. In spite of the money and professional skill which have been applied to the matter we find ourselves to-day without any clear-cut prescription. We are not without light, however, for the research of the last forty years has left us with positive as well as negative findings, and the next generation stands in a good position to capitalise the efforts of pioneers in this field. Any discussion of new methods of treating delinquents, therefore, must be pursued with modesty and with due consideration for the legacy of insight and f...