Juvenile crime has always been so serious issue in many countries. In order to understand juvenile crime, it is important to understand who is juvenile. Juvenile is children or teenager in other words anyone who below the age of eighteen. Juvenile crime seems like innocent and harmless but it becomes more complicated and deadly in recent years than people's thought. According to statistics, juvenile crime arrest rate increased in the mid-2000s (ojjdp.gov) and juvenile delinquency is more than adult ones (nber.org). Although these rates decline in recent years, it is a still critical and universal problem for many countries (aic.gov.au). Generally, various article and study on juvenile delinquency may often focus on different reasons. There could be many reasons why juveniles commit crime but generally there are two main reasons which are psychological and family based. .
First of all, the role of psychology are considered to be important aspect to explain why juvenile commit crime. The first theory to explain children delinquency is psychodynamic theory (Freud, 1890-1930). According to Freud, our unconcious mind determine our behavior. He talked about three distinct components which are id, ego and superego. Id shows primitive desires such as water, food and sex and superego represents moral and social values and ego balances two of them.These three components develop in early childhood (about 5 years). He stated that if there is an imbalance within three of them, the possibility of criminal behavior increase. In other words, weak or strong superego can increase tendency to crime in childhood. The second aspect about juvenile crime is personality traits. Referring to Costa and McCrae (1985), McIntosh (2012) states that Five Factor Model(FFM) explains that why juveniles commit crime. According to Costa and McCrae FFM describes five broad traits which are extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and opennes to experience.
There are numerous documented cases that involve juvenile crime. ... What is the reason for juvenile delinquency? How does a juvenile explain committing a (violent) crime? ... Violent crimes committed by juveniles have become a growing epidemic of "child's play." ... The two general questions that are asked are: who and what is to blame for juvenile delinquency? ...
Whenever someone is charged with any kind of accusation, their first reaction is to say they are innocent, and more often than not, they accuse someone else for their crime. What is happening to America today is the same thing, our youth is being corrupted, juvenile delinquency is increasing with every generation, and who is to blame, well the parents point their fingers at the media. ... No, in their ambitious goal to make more and more money, outrageous movies and programs are being released to attract viewers, which sometimes are what triggers unstable teenagers to go on their rampage. ...
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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. ... Violent crime can be seen as a highly masculine activity. ... Whenever there is a media story in the news about a violent crime committed, we automatically assume that a male is a perpetrator. ... Crime surveys also have a role to play in the over-representation of males since statistics of crime have been collected from members of society in the British Crime Survey, as well as official policing statistic...
Petty crime like vandalism and disturbing the peace, were attributed to intimidating zoot-suiters and became the focus in the papers. ... The press accounts of such incidents fueled an ever growing concern about the "Mexican" crime problem. ...