Chapter 3 Flashcards
Causes of Delinquency
- Theoretical Causes
1.1 Rational Choice
1.2 Social Disorganization
1.3 Bad Company
1.4 Labeling - External Causes
2.1 Atmosphere at home
2.2 Neighborhood
2.3 Guardian’s Behavior
Also known as “emotional disturbance” in teens has no single know cause but there are a number factors that can together foster a predisposition for it
Emotional Behavior Disorder
Signs and Symptoms of Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Difficulty in Learning which cannot be explained by intellectual challenges or any other health issues
- An inability to develop healthy, interpersonal relationship with teachers and peers
- Inappropriate thoughts, emotions or actions under normal circumstances
- Frequent unhappiness, depression, fear or anxiety about life or school
Biological Factors | Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol
- A physical illness or disability
- An undermourished or malnourished lifestyle
- Brain damage
- Hereditary Factors
Home Life | Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Poverty
- Parent’s separation
- Inconsistent rules and unhealthy discipline
- Lack of concern to teens
- Family are poor role models
- Abusive parents or siblings
- Low rate of positive interactions and high rate of negative interactions in the family
- Family’s poor attitude towards school or education
School | Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Teachers creating a negative environment
- School is insensitive to student differences or cultural issues
- Inconsistent rules
Preventive Measures | Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Create consistency in your teen’s life and maintain a positive environment
- Provide clear and direct instructions to your teen for home and school life
- Correct negative factors in teen’s environment and encourage undesirable behavior
- Punish undesirable behavior and reward desirable behavior
- Create a plan for conflict resolution
- Invest your teen’s life and encourage their participation and belonging at home and at school
Causes of Behavioral Disorder
- Predisposing Factor
- Precipitating Factor
Inherited propensities that cannot be considered a criminal one unless there is a probability that a crime will be committed
Predisposing Factor
Elements which provoke crime or factors that are signified to the everyday adjustments of an individual
Precipitating Factor
Causation of Juvenile Delinquency
(FESPO-UP)
- Family Factors
- Environmental Factors
- School Factors
- Political or Governmental Factor
- Other Factors
: Unemployment
: Psychopathic Personality
It refers to the life events or experiences that are associated with an increase in problem behaviors.
Risk Factors
Five Categories of Risk Factors:
(1) Individual characteristics,
(2) Peer group,
(3) School,
(4) Family and
(5) Community
Refer to a self-formed association of peers, bound together by mutual interest with identifiable leaderships, well developed lines of authority and other organizational features who act in concert to achieve a specific purpose which generally Include the conduct of illegal activity and control over a particular territory, facility of type of enterprise
Juvenile Gangs
Commits delinquent acts in a group
Co-offending
Refers to a small group that shares intimate knowledge and confidence
Cliques
Loosely organized group who shares interest and activities
Crowd
▪︎ This is also known as domestic abuse or intimate partner violence;
▪︎ It refers to a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner
Domestic Violence
EARLY SOCIAL LEGAL HISTORY ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
- Hammurabic Code
- Mosaic Code
- Roman Law
- Early Christianity
- Puritanism
The oldest written law is a collection of ______ rules which the ancient King Hammurabi used to govern Babylon during the years 1792 to 1750 BCE. It applies the Lex Talionis principle.
282 rules
▪︎ It is the ancient code of laws that, according to the Old Testament, were given by God to Moses.
▪︎ It consists of nomadic people and laws of an agricultural nation, laws reflecting a simple ritual and laws portraying an elaborate ceremonial; laws denouncing what other laws commend, laws recognizing a primitive political organization, and laws regulating the elaborate structure incident to a monarchy, and finally, laws reflecting a low moral standard, with others of the loftiest ethical tone.
Mosaic Code