juvenile delinquency

(noun)

Participation in illegal behaviour by minors.

Related Terms

  • Delinquency Prevention
  • Status Offenses

Examples of juvenile delinquency in the following topics:

  • Juvenile Crime

    • Juvenile delinquency is participation in illegal behaviors by minors.
    • A juvenile delinquent is typically under the age of 18.
    • Juvenile delinquency is participation in illegal behavior by minors.
    • Young men disproportionately commit juvenile delinquency.
    • Juvenile delinquency refers to antisocial or illegal behavior by children or adolescents, for dealing with juveniles, such as juvenile detention centers.
  • Illegitimate Opportunity Structures: Social Class and Crime

    • Merton's social strain theory to directly address juvenile delinquency and social class.
    • In 1960, Cowan and Ohlin published Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs.
    • Cowan and Ohlin used juvenile delinquency as a case study to explore this theory of illegitimate opportunity structures.
  • Differential Association Theory

    • A person becomes delinquent because of an excess of definitions favorable to violation of law over definitions unfavorable to violation of the law.
    • One very unique aspect of this theory is that it works to explain more than just juvenile delinquency and crime committed by lower class individuals.
  • Social Control Theory

    • Toby argued that individuals engaged in non-delinquent community activities felt as thought they had too much to lose by joining delinquent groups and, hence, had a "stake in conformity."
    • Toby argued that individuals engaged in non-delinquent community activities felt as thought they had too much to lose by joining delinquent groups and, hence, had a "stake in conformity."
    • Ivan Nye's book Family Relationships and Delinquent Behavior.
    • Nye carried on the tradition of studying juvenile delinquency as a means of theorizing about deviance and social control.
    • Youth may be directly controlled through constraints imposed by parents, through limits on the opportunity for delinquency, or through parental rewards and punishments.
  • Social Correlates of Religion

    • For instance, of 498 studies published in peer-reviewed journals, a large majority showed a positive correlation between religious commitment and higher levels of perceived well-being and self-esteem and lower levels of hypertension, depression and clinical delinquency.
    • Research indicates that in prosperous democracies, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.
    • An analysis of over 200 social studies contends that "high religiousness predicts a lower risk of depression and drug abuse and fewer suicide attempts, and more reports of satisfaction with sex life and a sense of well-being. " A review of 498 studies published in peer-reviewed journals concluded that a large majority of them showed a positive correlation between religious commitment and higher levels of perceived well-being and self-esteem and lower levels of hypertension, depression, and clinical delinquency.
  • Institutionalized Children

    • Juvenile wards are sections of psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric wards set aside for children and/or adolescents with mental illness.
    • However, there are a number of institutions specializing only in the treatment of juveniles, particularly when dealing with drug abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, anxiety, depression or other mental illness.
    • Discuss both the processes of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization, as they relate to issues juveniles may have
  • Control Theory

    • While control theory gives an adequate explanation of non-serious forms of youthful delinquency, it fails to explain adult criminal behavior and serious instances of youth crime.
  • Strain Theory: How Social Values Produce Deviance

    • Critics point to the fact that there is an ample amount of crime/delinquent behavior that is "non-utilitarian, malicious, and negativistic" (O'Grady, 2011), which highlights that not all crimes are explicable using Merton's theory.
  • Religion and Social Support

    • These same studies revealed a positive correlation between religious involvement and lower levels of hypertension, depression, and clinical delinquency.
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