Causes of Juvenile delinquency
The intensity of juvenile offences is usually depending on the social, economic and cultural conditions prevailing in a country. It is evident that there is increase in juvenile crime universally taking place simultaneously because of declining economy. In many cases street children later become young offenders because they either been witnesses or victims of violence in their early life. They are not educated because they do not get the opportunity to study due to poverty. Under or unemployment is another reason for delinquency.
The causes of and conditions for juvenile crime are usually depends upon social structure, including society as a whole, social institutions, social groups and organizations, and interpersonal …show more content…
Poverty contributes a lot to the delinquency of a child. Although it may not be a direct cause of delinquency, yet its unwholesome effects on the child may be disastrous. Feeling inadequacy, frustration and emotional insecurity play a dominant role in giving rise to anti-social propensities. Economic hardship is one of the arguments of the parents to excuse themselves from the responsibilities of child rearing. The most wanted, loved and desired child becomes 'unwanted' in the child struggle to satisfy all the paraphernalia circumvented in its upbringing, at par with the family status, maintenance and prestige. This unpleasant unwanted situation gives impetus to frustration and varies the child to an area of minimal contact with the …show more content…
This may be due to the differences in social control and social structure. In rural areas people rely on family and community control as a means of dealing with rebellious behaviour and show evidence of noticeably lower crime rates. Urban societies tend to resort to formal legal and judicial measures, an unfriendly approach that appears to be correlated to higher crime rates.
The incomplete process of urbanization in developing countries is contributing in involvement of juvenile in criminal behaviour. The essential character of the urbanization is that it promotes the development of new forms of social behaviour which are derived basically from weak social relations and control, increasing reliance on the media and the inclination towards ambiguity. These patterns are generated because of high population and
The intensity of juvenile offences is usually depending on the social, economic and cultural conditions prevailing in a country. It is evident that there is increase in juvenile crime universally taking place simultaneously because of declining economy. In many cases street children later become young offenders because they either been witnesses or victims of violence in their early life. They are not educated because they do not get the opportunity to study due to poverty. Under or unemployment is another reason for delinquency.
The causes of and conditions for juvenile crime are usually depends upon social structure, including society as a whole, social institutions, social groups and organizations, and interpersonal …show more content…
Poverty contributes a lot to the delinquency of a child. Although it may not be a direct cause of delinquency, yet its unwholesome effects on the child may be disastrous. Feeling inadequacy, frustration and emotional insecurity play a dominant role in giving rise to anti-social propensities. Economic hardship is one of the arguments of the parents to excuse themselves from the responsibilities of child rearing. The most wanted, loved and desired child becomes 'unwanted' in the child struggle to satisfy all the paraphernalia circumvented in its upbringing, at par with the family status, maintenance and prestige. This unpleasant unwanted situation gives impetus to frustration and varies the child to an area of minimal contact with the …show more content…
This may be due to the differences in social control and social structure. In rural areas people rely on family and community control as a means of dealing with rebellious behaviour and show evidence of noticeably lower crime rates. Urban societies tend to resort to formal legal and judicial measures, an unfriendly approach that appears to be correlated to higher crime rates.
The incomplete process of urbanization in developing countries is contributing in involvement of juvenile in criminal behaviour. The essential character of the urbanization is that it promotes the development of new forms of social behaviour which are derived basically from weak social relations and control, increasing reliance on the media and the inclination towards ambiguity. These patterns are generated because of high population and