Juvenile delinquency

• Emergence


  Begin with petty lancer
• Exploration


  Move with shoplifting
• Explosion


  Substantial increase in seriousness
• Authority conflict


  Early age with stubborn behavior
• Covert pathway


  Underhanded behavior that leads to property damage
• Overt pathway


  Aggressive acts beginning with aggressive and physical fighting
• Frustration aggression theory


  People who are frustrated with act aggressively
• Socialized Delinquency


  Juvenile had membership in fraternities or groups that advocated bad things
• Over-inhibited

  Classification of delinquency that group secretly trained to do illegal activities like marijuana cultivation
• Occasional Delinquents


  Delinquents participate in a group, have common or similar characteristics, are "pro-social"
• Delinquent Person


  One who repeatedly commits an act that is against the norms or mores observed by the society
• Gang delinquents


  • They generally commit the most serious infractions
• Juvenile Delinquency


  An anti-social act or behavior of minors
• Juvenile Crime


  Various offenses committed by children or youths under the age of 18
• Status Offense


  Typical status offenses range from misbehavior/misdemeanor
• Conflagration


  At around 15, Four or more types of crimes are added
• Socialized Delinquents


  They become delinquent as a result of their social association with people from whom they learned deviant values
• Neurotic Delinquents


  A result of distortion in their personality and their ideas and perception of the world around them
• Psychotic Delinquents


  Youths who tend to commit most heinous and senseless acts of violence
• Sociopathic Delinquents


  Characterized by egocentric personality
• Psychiatric Delinquents


  Person who become delinquent due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbance
• Roman Law and Canon Law


  Made distinction between juveniles and adults based on the notion "age of responsibility"
• Codification of Roman Law


  This law resulted in the "Twelve Tablets" which made it clear that children were criminally responsible for violation of law
• House of Refuge


  Was established to housed juvenile offenders
• Orphan Asylums


  Which housed abandoned and orphan childrens
• Parens Patriae


  Responsibility of the courts and the state to act in behalf of the child
• Albert K. Cohen


  Was the first man who attempted to find out the process of beginning of the Delinquent Subculture
• Demonological Theory


  Was based on the belief of primitive people that every object and person is guided by a spirit
• Hedonism


  Is a doctrine that pleasure is the highest good in life and that moral duty is fulfilled through the pursuit of pleasure
• General Deterrence


  Punishment of delinquents and criminal offenders will strike fear in the hearts of other people
• Specific Deterrence


  Punishment will strike fear in the hearts of wrongdoers, thus making them less likely to offend others again
• Determinism


  That every act has a cause that is waiting to be discovered in the natural world
• Retribution


  Idea that the criminals or delinquents should be punished because they deserved it
• Lombrosian Theory


  Criminals are atavistic / having mentality of primitive people
• Genetic Theory


  Men with extra y chromosomes are taller and have 10 to 20 percent greater tendency to break the law
• ID


  It is the unconscious portion of personality dominated by the drive for pleasure and by inborn sexual and aggressive impulse
• Ego


  This is the rational part of the personality it grows from the ID
• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Theory


  Juvenile delinquency is caused by immaturity and hyperactivity
• Anomie Theory


  Breakdown of social norms and a condition where norms no longer control the activities of members in society
• Differential Opportunity Theory


  Flourish in the lower classes and take particular forms so that the means for illegitimate success are no more equally distributed