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Factors Contributing To Juvenile Delinquency

Violence in the home or neighborhood, peer pressure to engage in criminal acts, socioeconomic factors where children feel they must commit crimes to prosper, and lack of moral guidance from parents or role models are some of the largest contributing factors to juvenile delinquency. Societal factors like shared values, cultural practices, and attitudes that are learned and influence individual behavior also contribute to crime rates. A theory suggests that the more a community does not criticize delinquent acts, the greater the chances are of individuals repeating such actions. The media needs to play a responsible role in creating awareness of societal strengths and weaknesses rather than sensationalizing crime.

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Factors Contributing To Juvenile Delinquency

Violence in the home or neighborhood, peer pressure to engage in criminal acts, socioeconomic factors where children feel they must commit crimes to prosper, and lack of moral guidance from parents or role models are some of the largest contributing factors to juvenile delinquency. Societal factors like shared values, cultural practices, and attitudes that are learned and influence individual behavior also contribute to crime rates. A theory suggests that the more a community does not criticize delinquent acts, the greater the chances are of individuals repeating such actions. The media needs to play a responsible role in creating awareness of societal strengths and weaknesses rather than sensationalizing crime.

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Factors Contributing to Juvenile Delinquency

Violence In The Home: One of the largest contributing factors to delinquency is violence in the home.Teens
subjected to violent actions, or those who witness it to others, are more likely to act ut their fears and frustrations.

Violence In Their Social Circles : If the neighborhood is in which a child lives is violent, the children will have a
tendency to be more prone to delinquency.

Peer Pressure : If all of their friends are committing delinquent acts, the child may feel pressured to do the same to
be accepted.

Socioeconomic Factors : it is believed they happen more in areas where children feel they must commit crimes to
prosper.The only true help for this situation is to make sure that children in these areas.

Lack Of Moral Guidance : Parental or adult influence is the most important factor in deterring delinquency. It starts
with hiring a quality Tulsa juvenile criminal defense attorney so that they can receive a fair trial.

Crime and society

Society often overlooks its own culpability.

In societal studies, social control is the domain of both the individual and the larger society. At the level of the
individual, family ties and belief in a basic value system help maintain a balanced personality — which is reinforced if
society shares a preference for values, disseminated through schools, religious practices, social gatherings and, most
importantly, the media.

Sociological theories imply that society ‘constructs’ criminality. Thus, while certain types of human activity might be
considered harmful to society, the latter may see criminal activity that injures the individual, such as drug abuse,
gambling etc, as ‘victimless crimes’, which are perceived as a loss of individual self-control.

Unfortunately, there is tendency to gloss over society’s own culpability. Edwin Sutherland’s differential association
theory suggests that the commission of a crime is the result of learned behaviour ie through association. In society,
shared values, cultural practices and attitudes are part of learned knowledge which motivates the behaviour of
individuals. The more a person sees delinquent acts not being criticised by his or her community, the greater the
chance of such actions being repeated.

the electronic media is an effective vehicle for creating awareness about the strengths and weaknesses of our
behaviour as a society. It has already shown its power to influence the conversation in the country; it now needs to
play a responsible role as it puts up a mirror to society. Mere re-enactments of crime scenes sensationalise matters
rather than produce thoughtful discourse.

Social control

Social control is the domain of both the individual and the larger society. At the level of the individual, family ties
and belief in a basic value system help maintain a balanced personality — which is reinforced if society shares a
preference for values, disseminated through schools, religious practices, social gatherings and, most importantly, the
media.Sociological theories imply that society ‘constructs’ criminality. Thus, while certain types of human activity
might be considered harmful to society, the latter may see criminal activity that injures the individual, such as drug
abuse, gambling etc, as ‘victimless crimes’, which are perceived as a loss of individual self-control.Edwin Sutherland’s
differential association theory suggests that the commission of a crime is the result of learned behaviour ie through
association. In society, shared values, cultural practices and attitudes are part of learned knowledge which motivates
the behaviour of individuals. The more a person sees delinquent acts not being criticised by his or her community,
the greater the chance of such actions being repeated.The electronic media is an effective vehicle for creating
awareness about the strengths and weaknesses of our behaviour as a society. It has already shown its power to
influence the conversation in the country; it now needs to play a responsible role as it puts up a mirror to society.
Mere re-enactments of crime scenes sensationalise matters rather than produce thoughtful discourse.

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