Travis Hirschi's 1969 book, Causes of Delinquincy, he focuses on the family, the school, and peers as the most influencial factors on a youth. ... The first three come from what is labeled as the "broken home" and will be classified as such. ... Of all the broken home factors divorce is the most studied and is often compared to the death of a parent. ... Wadsworths study called, Roots of Delinquincy, presented longitudinal studies of homes broken by divorce, desertion, or separation. The results showed that such homes were more likely to produce serious delinquency in comparison to homes ...

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"The delinquent is a rogue male" stated by Wooden and Blazak in their book on delinquency. ... Indeed, an important point to understand about the nature of delinquency, and particularly female delinquency, is that youth can be taken into custody for both criminal acts and a wide variety of what are called "status offenses." These offenses allow for the arrest of youth for a wide range of behaviors that are violations of parental authority: running away from home, being a person in need of supervision, being "incorrigible," "beyond control," in need of care and protection, and so on. ... N...

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Poverty, unemployment, inequality and boredom, as well as factors such as single parent families, child abuse, broken homes and also media violence, drugs and moral decline have all been used to attempt to explain the problem. ... In his book L"Umo Delinquente (1876) he argues that criminals were throwbacks to an earlier and more primitive form of human being and claimed to have identified a number of genetically determined characteristics which were often found in criminals. ... While working for the Bush administration's secretary of health and human services he was appalled by the ep...

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In his book "Criminal Man" (1876) he proposed that certain people are born with a powerful, innate, predisposition to behave in an antisocial way. ... This criminal class, which he called "Homo Delinquens" displayed external characteristics which betrayed their criminal disposition These features included a narrow sloping brow, a prominent jaw, high cheekbones, large ears and extra nipples, toes and fingers. ... The ego is the conscious part of the personality which tries to regulate the desires of the id within boundaries put in place by parents and society. ... To do this, the ego employs...

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They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather than some of them are violent. ... Crimes with guns and knives wouldn't take place without the students having access to those weapons. ... Sutherland's famous theory is called the theory of differential association. ... In homes where positive behavior is not the norm, exposure to violence through popular culture may have a more profound impact. ... Coordinating privileges and punishments a...

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In his book, Marshall MacLuhan stated that " Everybody experiences far more than he understands. ... There are important and significantly gendered exceptions to this toxic mix of newsworthiness for example, domestic violence and child abuse in the home. ...

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As Ray states, 'if there is an underlying biological tendency towards masculine violence, this should manifest similarly in different cultures and places, which it does not' (2011:85). ... Around eight months after the experiment, just under half of the children that participated, were displaying violent acts at home; the same actions that were shown in the video. Experiments such as this do not only show that aggression is learnt (as Bandura found out), but also that the observation of symbols and objects are memorised by young children, and at a later time period these memories ar...

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