Family factors are comparable to or with the characteristic of inept parenting skills, which is one of the strongest predictors of juvenile connection to crime. ... Finally, factors connected with family disturbance are the weakest predictors (Loeber, and Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986). ... Poor school achievements are known to be a good predictor of involvement in crime. ...
Current research into this difficult and pressing issue reflects a vast range of theories about, and predictors of delinquency as well as a multitude of strategies to control and reduce overall delinquency. ... Numerous risk factors have been identified as indicators or predictors of juvenile delinquency and those factors represent dysfunction at several levels, specifically within the structure of the offender's family. ...
Tsotsi takes us on an incredible emotional journey where we witness a world filled with cruelty, violence and grave poverty. In this paper, the use of routine activities theory and general strain theory help in explaining the level of random violence. We may just look at a person or a group of indiv...
Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. This type of regulation, requiring a mandatory consequence for a predetermined act, is known in the educational realm as a zero tolerance policy. Since 1994, schools throughou...
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the works of Edwin Sutherland and his theory of differential association. The differential association theory depicts a relationship between a societal structure and criminal behavior. Sutherland illustrates the focuses of differential association into nine detailed tenants. He arrived at these tenants through his different experiences with the theory, and the different versions of his book "Principles of Criminology". Differential association emphasis how an individual' interactions with people can have an affect on criminal beh...
