Deviant Criminal Behavior

What are three behaviors that are deviant but not criminal; A child who says he will clean their room after you give them a reward first, but then does not clean. Its consider deviant behavior and will cause mistrust, it’s not a crime because the kid decided to not clean his room. Its frowned upon for the kid disobeying. Wearing skimpy clothes to church, its deviant behavior because it’s wrong to wear revealing, short clothes to church. It’s not criminal because there isn’t a law passed of what you can and cannot wear to church. Having tattoos is considered deviant. Employers usually frown upon people with lots of tattoo’s or a sleeve of them. It’s not criminal or against the law to get a tattoo.

Definition: "Deviance a behavior, trait, belief, or other characteristics that violate a norm and causes a negative reaction." In this paper, the subject that I will be discussing a 14-year-old Muslim boy named Ahmed Mohamed. The article was written by (Ashley Fantz, Steve Almasy and Anne Claire Stapleton, September 2015) "When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, he wanted to show his teacher the digital clock he'd made a pencil case." After he presented the clock he built to his teacher, he did not receive the reaction from the teacher as expected. To Ahmed surprised he was arrested for his clock that he showed his teacher, can you imagine how

This research is important because understanding what makes a juvenile delinquent is necessary to know. Parents can be educated on what is affecting their teen to contribute to delinquent behavior. The family structure has been avoided by many citizens. Educating the public on the family structure can make a different in a teen’s life.

In addition to the aforementioned casual explanation the link between parental imprisonment and children delinquency may be based on family risk factor that predated the father involvement in the criminal justice. Incarcerated fathers and incarcerated men more generally tend to be highly disadvantages before their time in prison or jail with low levels of education and high rates of drug use mental health problem and impulsitively. Whatever the role of parental imprisonment in children development and behavior delinquency is shaped not only by family circumstances and more over the interaction among the individuals in the

Since the late 1900’s incarceration rates have been rising constantly. Incarceration impacts other individuals that aren’t behind bars locked up in a cell. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1.5 million minors deal with parental incarceration every year (Harrison & Beck, 2006).This project will investigate/ observe the effects of parental incarceration on male juveniles. Young juveniles of prisoners appear to suffer from the difficult living environments due to lack of guardianship leading them to commit crimes and violent offenses. The main focus of this project is to validate and observe the behavior of juveniles whose parents are incarcerated. There would be two control groups to be evaluated; Juveniles that haven’t had their parents incarcerated, and those who have been incarcerated throughout their lifetimes. This study will use data from the analysis conducted from the office of state courts administrator juvenile office risk. These children would be observed to analyze if any anti-social behavior is depicted. It is reasonable to predict that juveniles, whose parents have been incarcerated throughout their lifetime, will demonstrate acts of violence and illegal behaviors towards society. Prisoners’ children are more accessible to violence since no parental supervision is acquired when the parents are locked up.

Kids with imprisoned parents face a lot of societal problems related to behavior, financial needs, standards of living and stigmatization among others. The problems that the children face are enough to influence their future behavior and well-being. It is important to address the issues since the group of children is very special and vulnerable. Helping them will ensure that they grow up to become good and supportive citizens in their adulthood. Studies reveal that incarceration of parents has serious problems on children and the community as a whole. This particular study concentrated on the effects that the incarceration of parents will have on children. This topic is very important for researchers and society since it will help the society to solve the increasing problems that have been caused by delinquency behavior. Some children have been forced to get involved in criminal behavior due to lack of parents. Increasing the interactions and contacts between the parents and their children will help the society to reduce or minimize the issues. Succinctly, the increasing number of incarcerated parents in the United States of America and other countries around the world have serious effects on children.

In some families, there can be different circumstances and situations which can cause any sane person to transform into a criminal. Firstly, the family environment will shape a child's welfare with a hospitable, caring parent-child interaction, a comfortable environment at home, and acceptable disciplinary skills. Accordingly, families with weak bonding between parents and children who are emotionally inhospitable and erratic in disciplining their child, are often linked to later criminal behavior. Furthermore, parents are pivotal to the socialization of a criminal, because it begins with the authority of their parenting practices. Authoritarian parental practices are excessively controlling, establishing children to meet a high set of standards, they lack the competence to be accommodating, responsiveness and cordial towards their children.

Juvenile delinquency is a social issue in the United States today. Juvenile delinquency, is when “a violation of the law is committed by a juvenile and is not punishable by death or life imprisonment” (Juvenile Delinquency). The juvenile system is different from the adult system in many way and most juvenile delinquents are from the age of ten to the age of seventeen (Juvenile Delinquent). Once the delinquent or anyone is at the age of eighteen, they are considered to be an adult. Therefore, in the justice system they are tried as an adult. There are many different reasons why a child would commit crime, such as mental and physical factors, peer influence, home conditions, neighborhood environment and school conditions. Teens are greatly influenced by the interactions and surroundings they are around. Their behaviors can result from the parent and/or their peer influences. Parents play a great role in the child’s life and a teen’s peers also play a strong role in how the teen behaves when the parents are not insight. This research will examine links between the social environment of teens and how it influences the teens actions and behavior which leads them to commit an offense.

The idea of youth or juvenile incarceration, depending on who is asked, varies with regards to the degree of feasibility as well as result yielding. Some people argue that the act results in better-behaved, while other think it is a waste of both time and money. Despite the fact that incarceration being a form of rehabilitation, it does not guarantee that it will yield results due to the difference in personalities and backgrounds of the culprits. However, some of the programs have actual results, but other factors come into play for the achievement of positive results. There are factors which result in youths exhibiting negative behavior such as poor parental presence and discipline in their children’s lives as well as the failure of schools to discipline the children. Therefore, the idea of juvenile incarceration can be viewed as a waste of time, money as well as possible fostering of more issues since there are better alternatives, which can be adopted instead of the act.

There are four top social risk factors believed for the involvement of crime. Parental behavior plays a large role in a child’s risk of involvement of crime because of the parent’s influence on a child’s development (“Social Risk Factors for Involvement of Crime”). Poor parenting in supervision, maltreatment of a child, or if the parent is a

Many children in the due course of their growth and development indulge in deviant behaviour. This association with deviant behaviour gradually increases with age. Most of the children in detention centers were middle or late adolescents. The backgrounds of the children were usually the same: they faced multiple hardships during their lives, they had low-earning families, had parents who were not educated or had very less education, or belonged to families which were in a state of disarray. Most often, these children were from the backward sections of the society, earned for the family independently or with their parents, or were drop-outs. So we cannot deny that children associated with deviant behaviour are usually from families with low

An analysis of the reasons that instigate juveniles to engage in criminal behavior could potentially assist in improving the current Criminal Justice practices. The purpose of this research is to explore the principle of causality, which is basically the concept pertaining to cause and effect among potential young offenders. It is relevant to have a better understanding about the specific reasons causing young people to decide to break the law. An effective strategy would be to focus on prevention for rehabilitative purposes, which could be more beneficial than focusing on retribution. The United States is the country with the highest prison population figures in the world (Tsai & Scommegna, 2016). The main focus of this research is to examine juvenile delinquency in depth as finding a way to decrease the juvenile delinquency rates will impact the family unit as well as society as a whole.

Deviant behavior is not only difficult to define; it is also challenging to form a consensus as to what constitutes deviant behavior. An attempt to google deviant behavior draws a multitude of responses, each with its own subtle nuances. A textbook from a previous sociology class defines deviance as “any behavior, belief, or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs” (Kendall, 2015, p. 164). Is it any wonder then that this lack of agreement causes different perspectives to form? Two perspectives that are mentioned in Hills’ article include the absolutist and the relativist perspectives.

In studying crimes and deviance, sociologists look to explain what types of behavior are defined as deviant as opposed to criminal, who defines deviant behaviors, why people become deviant, and how society deals with deviant behavior. Deviance is defined by sociologists are behavior that significantly goes against expected rules and norms. Criminal behavior is behavior that violates the law. Sociology studies groups as opposed to individuals, so when studying crime and deviance, sociologists are looking at the factors that influence groups as a whole to engage in crime and deviant behavior. In defining deviant behavior, the definition may vary throughout different groups. Not all groups of people will consider the same behaviors

Juvenile offending is a major problem in society. Understanding the risk factors that contribute to the increased likelihood of a juvenile to engage in delinquency is important. There are many factors that can influence the increased risk of juvenile delinquency. These factors include poverty, low socioeconomic status, age (Jarjoura, Triplett, & Brinker, 2002), race, gender (Lucero, Barret, & Jensen, 2015), education (Lucero, Barret, & Jensen, 2015; Jarjoura, 1993), and family structure (Anderson, 2002; Kierkus & Hewitt, 2009). It is important to examine if some risk factors can contribute more than others and to what extent they interact with one another. This paper will discuss three important risk factors that contribute to the likelihood of juveniles engaging in deviant acts. The three risk factors discussed are poverty, family structure, and educational attainment. In addition, this paper will demonstrate how these three risk factors interact with one another, resulting in a higher propensity for involvement in juvenile delinquency.