Lesson 1-The Nature Extent And Theories Of Juvenile Delinquency Flashcards
It is generally thought to mean criminal behavior committed by juvenile under the legal age of adulthood, disapproved behavior of minors.
Delinquency
It is an unwelcome action omission or moral behavior of a juvenile which is socially not permitted in any society.
Delinquency
Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006.
RA 9344
It is generally used in reference to a young criminal offender.
Juvenile
It is related to a legal capacity of a person.
Minor
What amended the 18 years age of majority?
RA 6809 an act lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 years, ammlending for the purposen Executive order 209. This was approved on December 13, 1989
He is the one who’s behavior has brought him into repeated conflict with the law, regardless of wether he has been taken before the court or adjudged.
Delinquent
It refers to antisocial acts or behavior of children which deviate from the normal pattern of rules and regulations, custom and culture which society does not accept and which therefore justify some kind of admonition, punishment or corrective measures in the public interest.
Juvenile Delinquency
It is defined as an antisocial behavior or act which does not conformed with the standards of society , which is left unchecked would give rise to criminality.
Juvenile Delinquency
It’s a behavioral disorder which generally defined as “ A child trying or pretending to act like a grow up or adult”.
Juvenile Delinquent
Where was the first juvenile court established?
Illinois 1899
It is the year that the supreme Court decided that juveniles should have the right due process.
Late 1960
This philosophy meant the state could act “as a parent” And give juvenile court the power to intervene whenever court officials felt intervention was in the best interest of the child.
Parens Patriae
What are the three types of delinquency?
Environmental
Emotionally Maladjusted
Psychiatric
This is characterized by being ocasionally infirging norms.
Environmental
This is characterized by constantly deviating from the normal pattern of rules and regulations which become a habit.
Emotionally maladjusted
This is characterized by serious mental and emotional disorders which cause an individual to commit an wrongful act.
Psychiatric
Types of delinquent youth
Social
Asocial
Neurotic
Accidental
He is an agressive youth who resent the authority of anyone who make an effort to control his behavior.
Social
He is one whose delinquent acts have a cold, brutal and vicius quality without remorse.
Asocial
He is one who is internalized his conflicts and his preoccupied with his own feelings.
Neurotic
He is essentially sociable and law abiding but happens to be at the wrong time and place and become involved in delinquent acts not typical of his general behavior.
Accidental
Approaches in the study of delinquency
Biogenic
Sociogenic
Psychogenic
Contemporary Approach
It is believed that the person breaks the law as a result of faulty biology.
Biogenic
This approach believed that delinquency is learned in the environment.
Sociogenic
It believes that offender’s personality problems are the factors for doing wrong acts.
Psychogenic
He is the Dean of modern criminology and advocated his differential association theory which states that “criminal behavior is learned and not inherited.
Edwin Sutherland
It is the combination of the above approaches to explain reasons or causes for the commission of delinquency
Contemporary Approach
This is a Latin phrase which refers to the presumption in law that a child is incapable of forming the criminal intent to commit an offense.
Doctrine of Doli Incapax
This includes those deliquent who would have criminal records and generally who were generally neglected and rejected form home and are prone to physical violence.
Unsocialized Delinquents
This category consider that the delinquents would be one who is law abiding most of the time but who has a lapse of judgement. They involved themselves accidentally in a delinquent activity.
Accidental Delinquency
Stages of delinquency
Emergence
Exploration
Explosion
Conflagration
Begins with petty larceny or minor theft (8-12 yrs)
Emergence
Shoplifting and vandalism (12-14 yrs)
Exploration
Substantial increase in variety and seriousness of his acts
Explosion
Four or more types of Crimes are added
Conflagration
Classification of delinquency
Unsocialized aggression
Socialized aggression
Over inbihited
Rejected/abandoned
Unsocialized aggression
Membership to group with bad advocacies
Socialized aggression
Group secretly trained in doing illegal activities
Over inhibited
It assumes that criminal results in a rational process which offenders makes decision and choices often planning their criminal activity so as to maximize the benifits and avoid the risks. Crime is explained as a free will, voluntarily choice.
Classical theory (Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham)
It’s says that crime is caused by strain or frustration of not having an equal opportunity means to achieved commonly idealized goals such as economic or social success
Strain theory
Crime is related of the interaction of three variables associated with the routine activities of everyday life the availability of suitable targets of crime, the absence of capable guardians.
Routine activity Theory
Is says that delinquency focus not on societal structures but on social interactions between individual and environment influences that may lead to delinquent behavior.
Social process theories
Delinquency is a learned behavior as youth interact deviant with any other youth
Differential theory (Edwin Sutherland)
A social process explanation that focuses on social bonds that reduce the delinquent involvement. Delinquency is more likely among youth who lack social bonds and positive social interactions among parents and peers.
Control theory
This theory constituted a reassertion of the classical schools intitial contention that individual seeks personal pleasure while avoiding pain (Beccaria) which simply means that people are motivated by self interest.
Self control theory
This theory stages that a person pursues criminal behavior to the extent that he identifies himself with real or imaginary persons from whose perspective his criminal behavior means acceptable.
Differential Identification Theory
When did the RA 6809 approved?
December 13, 1989
It is a delinquency which only one individual is involved in committing a delinquent act and it’s caused is located within the individual delinquent.
Individual Delinquency
Delinquency are committed in companionship with others and the cause is located not in the personality of the individual or the delinquents family but in the cultures of the individuals home and neighborhood.
Group supported delinquency
Delinquency that committed by formally organized group. It is a concept of delinquent subculture which refers to the set of valued and norms.
Organized delinquency
The youngsters formed a groups and did their illegal activities within a group.
Gang organized delinquency
