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    and parent behavior plays a major role in youth delinquency. Research has also distinguished gender difference can make a big impact on the type of delinquent behavior. Boys and Girls both function entirely different therefore behavior is different. This paper will reflect on explanations to why gender makes a differences. We will also look at family structure and behavior as to how it influences delinquency behavior. With this in mind, the delinquency rate for males, is higher than females. Years

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    performance, skipping school, and dropping out at a young age are all connected to delinquency. There was an increase in the rates of juvenile delinquency after dropping out from school [2]. Juveniles who go to school consistently and have a strong academic performance, ideally go on to college and have a successful career and bright future [1]. There seems to be a connection between academic performance and delinquency. It seems that young people with a lower academic performance are more delinquent

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    what causes an individual to commit a crime. Although the Bible explicitly confirms the origin of crime is the sinful nature of man, many have argued as to the cause of criminality. During the eighteenth century, the argument for criminality and delinquency was the fall of man, as the Book of Genesis explains, after Eve ate from the forbidden tree, in Chapter 3. The first criminal act follows the fall of man, in Genesis 4:8 (NIV) where “Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field

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    Have you ever been a charged with Juvenile crime behavior? Juvenile Delinquency is cause by a correlation of factors including environment, parenting, social economic level, and alcohol and drug abuse. Juvenile delinquency is also caused by the way the child is getting treated at home, or the separation of both parent and, family conflict & etc. When a parent abuse or lose communication with the child can also cause delinquency. Crime is one thing kids younger than 18 years of age get charged with

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    Juvenile Delinquency When looking into the history of United States and elsewhere juvenile delinquency is a problem and has been one for over a century. Like other systems in place, the system involving juvenile delinquents has gone through many stages. In the case of the juvenile delinquency, it has gone through four stages, with us presently in the fourth. The causes behind juvenile delinquency are still unknown even today. Some blame it on the current culture, the over-exposure to violence

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    Juvenile Delinquency Essay

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    Juvenile Delinquency There is no doubt that various experts can give us many theories as to the causes of juvenile delinquency, including one's economic background, substance abuse, delinquent peer groups, repeated exposure to violence, increased availability of firearms and media violence. However, I feel that the number one cause of juvenile delinquency is the breakdown of families, including lack of parental control over children. It is ironic in America, today, one must have a driver's license

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    What defines juvenile delinquency? Juvenile delinquency is when a male or female violates the law prior to their eighteenth birthday. However, in certain cases, someone younger than eighteen can be tried as an adult, it depends on their criminal history and what crime was committed (“38. Juvenile Defined”). Juvenile offenders usually have similar backgrounds. Many psychologists believe these are the contributing factors of the juveniles committing the crimes. The main factors that are believed to

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    link serious behavior problems in children to adult criminal conduct. In more recent years, there has been more research done regarding the causes and prevention of juvenile delinquency. The Department of Juvenile Justice lists 3 broad categories with many subcategories to help us understand what contributes to juvenile delinquency (CITE). These categories are listed as Individual, social, and community factors. Similarly, Dr. Alida V. Merlo, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania states that in recent

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    Families and Juvenile Delinquency

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    lives, family responsibilities may provide an important stabilizing force. Given these possibilities, family life may directly contribute to the development of delinquent and criminal tendencies. Parental conflict and child abuse correlate with delinquency. Though not all children who grow up in conflictive or violent homes become delinquent, however, being exposed to conflict and violence appears to increase the risk of

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    actions of those around them, and absorb those things into their memory. (Briggs, Grella, Allen-Burton, Yarmuth, & Taylor, 2012) There are many studies on the causes of juvenile delinquency, but there is much debate as to who and what is considered the primary factors of influence. This topic is important because juvenile delinquency continues to be a huge problem in the U.S; in 2012 alone, there was approximately 1,319,700 juvenile arrests (Puzzenchera, 2014). The primary group in this research are those

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