CRIM 5

• Stages of Delinquency:

  1. Emergence
  2. Exploration
  3. Explosion
  4. Conflagration
  5. Outburst
• Emergence - the child begins with petty larceny between 8 and sometimes the 12th year
• Emergence - the child begins with petty larceny between 8 and sometimes the 12th year
• Exploration - move on to shoplifting between ages 12 to 14
• Exploration - move on to shoplifting between ages 12 to 14
• Explosion - there is a substantial increase in variety of seriousness. This age is 13 above/up
• Explosion - there is a substantial increase in variety of seriousness. This age is 13 above/up
• Conflagration - Four or more types of crimes are added. age is around 15 above/up
• Conflagration - Four or more types of crimes are added. age is around 15 above/up
• Outburst - those who continue on adulthood will progress into more sophisticated or more violent forms of criminal behavior
• Classification of Delinquency:

  1. Unsocialized Aggression
  2. Socialize Delinquency
  3. Over-inhibited
• Unsocialized aggression - Rejected or abandoned, No parents to imitate and become aggressive
• Social Delinquency - Membership of fraternities or groups that advocate bad things
• Over-inhibited - Group secretly trained to do illegal activities, like marijuana cultivation
• Different Approaches Toward Delinquency:

  1. Biogenic Approach
  2. Psychogenic Approach
  3. Sociogenic Approach
• Biogenic Approach - It views law-breaker as a person whose misconduct is a result of faulty biology.
• Biogenic Approach = The offender is a hereditary defective, suffers from endocrine imbalance or brain pathology, his body structure and temperament pattern have produced the law breaking
• Psychogenic Approach - the offender behaves in response to psychological pathology of some kind.
• Psychogenic Approach - the critical casual factors in delinquency are - personality problems, to which juvenile misbehavior is presume to be a response
• Sociogenic approach - attributes the variations in delinquency pattern to influence social structures
• Sociogenic approach - they account for individual offender by reference process, which go in on youth gangs, stigmatizing contacts with social control agencies and other variables of that time
• Causes of Behavioral Disorders:

  1. Predisposing Factor
  2. Precipitating Factor
• Predisposing Factor - Inclinations or inherited propensities, which cannot be, considered a criminal one unless there is a probability that a crime will be committed
• Precipitating Factors - Elements which provokes crimes or factors that are signified to the everyday adjustments of an individual, like personal problems,...
• Factors affecting Juvenile Delinquency:

  1. individual risk factors
  2. Family
  3. Environment
  4. School
  5. Other agencies of the government
• Individual Risk factors - Individual psychological or behavioral risk factors that may make offending more likely include intelligence, impulsiveness, or the ability to delay gratification, aggression, empathy, and restlessness
• Family - First and the basic institution in our society for developing the child's potential in all aspects like emotional, intellectual,...
• Causes why some of the child becomes juvenile delinquent as influence their by own family:

  1. lack of love and the instinct of hate and anger due to unfair treatment
  2. Parental rejection
  3. broken home
  4. Parental Abuse or neglect
  5. Faulty development of a child
  6. lack of parental guidance
  7. Criminal parents/siblings
• Home - Cradle of human personality
• Environment - Where the child influence after his first formative years
• Causes why some of the child becomes juvenile delinquent as influence their by own ENVIRONMENT:

  1. Association with criminal groups
  2. Alcoholism and drug addiction
  3. Impulse of fear
  4. Crime inducing situation that caused criminalistic tendencies
  5. Imitated intinct like selfishness, violence and anti-social wishes
• School - a public instrument for training young people
• 3 types of delinquent gangs by cloward and ohlin:

  1. criminal gang
  2. Conflict/violent gang
  3. Retreatist gang
• Criminal gang - Emerge in areas where conventional as well as non-conventional values behavior are integrated by a close connection of illegitimate ang legitimate business.
• Criminal gang - this type of gang is stable than the ones to follow, Older criminals serve as role models and they teach necessary criminal skills to the youngster
• Conflict/violent gang - Non-stable and non-integrated, where there is an absence of criminal organization resulting in instability. This gang aims to find reputation for toughness ad destructiveness
• Retreatist Gang - Equally unsuccessfull in legitimate as well as illegitimate means. They are known as double failures, thus retreating into world of sex, drugs, and alcohol
• Social Disorganization Theory by Clifford Shaw and Henry Mckay
• Social Disorganization Theory - disorganized areas cannot exert social control over acting-out youth
• Anomie theory was advocated by Emile Durkheim