Red Diary Day22.

Day22.

THEME : Juvenile Delinquency
TITLE : Where Does Come from Juvenile Delinquency Come from?

 

What is the juvenile delinquency? Juvenile delinquency indicates illegal or antisocial or abnormal behavior. In a the law, juvenile delinquency defines a person who typically is under the age of 19. Juvenile delinquency can be separated into 3 categories; delinquency, criminal behavior, status offenses. Those kinds of juvenile delinquency deal with by the juvenile courts, justice system and criminal justice system.

How can we see them? Action of juvenile delinquency includes below(=as follows).
- first, running away from home without permission of parents.
- second, habitual truancy beyond the control of parents.
- third, stealing.
- fourth, wandering around rail, roads, streets, market places.
- fifth, using vulgar language.
- sixth, visiting gambling centers.
- seventh, committing sexual offenders.

Why What causes juvenile delinquency causes? According to Healy and Bronner, the reasons are bad company, mental conflicts, love of adventure, school dissatisfaction, poor recreation, street life, vocational dissatisfaction.

What are the major factors causing juvenile delinquency? Many researchers study the major factors of juvenile delinquency. There are social, personality and environmental factors. Social and environmental factors are broken home, poverty, delinquency area, school dissatisfaction, pornography literature and so on. And personal factors are mental deficiency, emotional problems.

How can we prevent the juvenile delinquency?
- first, we establish child guidance clinics for juvenile delinquent.
- second, we prepare and give proper training to the members and staff of all organizations concerned with delinquency control.
- third, we improve the social environment.
- fourth, we educate to the families to realize the importance of giving proper attention to the needs of their young children.

In general, many countries have juvenile delinquency problems. Korea is not different. Complicating our society, juvenile delinquency’s rate is increases rapidly increased. In my point of view, juvenile delinquency problems aren’t individual problems. And juvenile delinquency can happen anywhere and anytime. So the government gives support to juvenile delinquent by making institution or educating them, and people should better help juvenile delinquents to the right way. We should have many concerns for juvenile delinquents. They probably want to receive concerns from people.