Juvenile Delinquency Crisis
Sharon Dollar
ENG/102 Version 9
Dr. Amana Levi
May 21, 2014

Juvenile crime has increased dramatically over the past couple decades. There is much speculation of the reasons as to why juvenile delinquency is becoming such a big problem. Child neglect and lack of parental control, boredom, lack of interference with delinquent children, drug abuse, and living in a poor environment happen to be valid theories that support why juvenile criminal behavior is becoming a national epidemic. With this information, one can gather ways to combat juvenile delinquency, such as [place holder]
Due to high rise of juvenile criminal behavior the state courts ore becoming crowded. There is a challenge into saving the juvenile from being caught up in the system of delinquency has consequence of increased scrutiny from both probation officers and child welfare caseworkers.
Before one can attempt to fully understand the complex nature of juvenile crime, one must examine its history; there is a long, drawn out history of juvenile justice. Until the 19th century, children were punished and confined in the same way as adults. Early jails would house adult men and women, children, the mentally stable, as well as the mentally unstable in the same facility. The average number of children in any given jail was 200, but there were jails, such as the New York House of Refuge, which housed over 1,000 youth at a time. (“Juvenile justices’ history, “2006)
The cause of juvenile delinquency could be many there is individual risk when it come delinquency. Traditional patterns guiding the relationship and transitions between family, child neglect, bullying, and living in poor neighborhood. The restricting the labor markets, extension of the maturity gap the period of dependence of young adults are all changes influencing relationships with family and friends, educational opportunities and choices, labor market participation, leisure activities and lifestyles.(United Nations, 1990) One other reason that juveniles become involved in delinquent behavior and illegal conduct are drug abuse and alcohol abuse. Drugs are a leading gateway and when children are coming up in society having a family definably has a major influence on their livelihood.
Children are much harder to fix once they have become criminals than they are when they first show sign of deviant or anti-social behavior. Statistics show that somewhere between 30 to 40 percent of all boys growing up in an urbanized area in the United States will be arrested before their 18th birthday although juveniles account for only a small proportion of the total population; older juveniles have the highest arrest rates of any age group. (Juvenile Delinquency: Cause and Effect, 2000) Intervention is something that is done to prevent the delinquent behavior kind of serve as a solution to the problem. A number of different types of programs currently exist. Those that get involved with the delinquent after the occurrence of deviant behavior tend to be less successful, since by that point antisocial habits are well developed. The main effects from the regression model support this approach. At the family level, consistent supervision, verbal intimidation, and the perception of a supportive home environment were some of the largest contextual predictors of recidivism. (J Youth Adolescence 2013)
Children that come from broken homes tend to make very poor choices because there is usually too little support and direction. Adolescents are more likely to get more out of life and make better choices when raised in homes that are not broken, but are united. There are a lot of things can be linked with such socioeconomic statuses when it comes to poverty. There is still another type of activity that exists and juveniles are being stereotyped for their race. Peer pressure is another factor that leads to disrupted of an individual. When this happen they are usually bullied and