Lesson 2- Factors And Causes Of Juvenile Delinquency Flashcards
Parental relationship, sibling relationship and home environment
Internal factors
It is the relationship between parents and their children. A stable, nurturing, and supportive parental
relationship can contribute to a child’s healthy emotional development, self-esteem, and ability to form positive relationships with others.
Parental relationship
A sibling relationship can lso have a significant impact on behavior.
Sibling relationship
The environment outside home, peer pressure, and community rules influence the respondents to commit delinquent act.
External factors
These are the theoritical causes of delinquency.
Rational Choice
Social Disorganization
Bad Company
It suggest that children does any delinquent act because his mind tells him to do it.
Rational Choice
As the joints family system is coming to an end, a new trend has evolved we’re both parents are working and as the result children are left neglected and such isolation leads to the childs involvement in wrongful act.
Social Disorganization
Children who are in bad company knowingly or unknowingly indulge in criminal activities.
Bad Company
This is the theory of our society, generally when we see someone or hear someone’s involvement in a crime we actually label him as a criminal.
Labelling
This is a chemical imbalance in the brain and the body of a teen can make managing emotions a challenge. (Disability/drugs/alcohol)
Biological Factors
Faculty development of a child, lack of parental guidance, lack of love, parental rejections, etc.
Family Factors
This is the most influential environmental factors that would lead a person to either a law abiding or a criminal. It is considered as “cradle of human personality”.
The Home
It refers to areas or places in which dwelling or housing conditions are dilapidated, unsanitary and unhealthy which are detrimental to the moral.
Bad Neighborhood
It is commonly characterized by overcrowding with disintegrated and unorganized inhabitants and other close relatives.
Bad Neighborhood
It is an extension of the home having the strategic position to control crime and delinquency. It exercises authority over the child as a constituent.
School Factors