Growing Up

Chapter four deals with peers and problems. It gives answers as to why some kids become delinquents and we find out that it stems simply from a pause of laugh response to the behavior of the kid. Mostly this chapter talks about deviance, its pathway, its source and ways to prevent it. Early adolescents are particularly susceptible to deviancy if left unmonitored and or not offered multiple opportunities for prosocial activities.

Over time adolescence has been a major topic of discussion between people, but most people aren’t really interested so much in what adolescence is as they are in the consequences that come out of that stage of life. In the short stories “Araby” by James Joyce and “A&P” by John Updike, both authors explore adolescence and bring to light the devastation caused by letting childish impulse control your actions. Although the storyline of “Araby” and “A&P” differ in terms of setting, age of main characters, and ideals, both works come together to show the reader how letting impulses control your actions will leave you worse off than you were before.

Juvenile Delinquents are being incarcerated at earlier ages as time progresses. The term delinquent speaks of two or more youths, typically amongst the ages of ten and seventeen years old, who are involved in doings well-defined as illegal. The study of juvenile delinquents in inner city Chicago have been studied for many years and the rates continue to sky rocket as juveniles are being locked down by the justice system. Cases of violence amongst juveniles has been increasing rapidly in the past 20 years, juveniles are now linked to severer crimes, and it can be speculated that regardless of efforts of rehabilitation that the recidivism of juveniles relapsing is very great. Thus leading to physiological and mental problems that can be damaging to the youth as

The book “There Are No Children Here” follows the life of two young boys, Pharoah and Lafayette as they battle everyday life in the dangerous neighborhood of Henry Horner. Many of the life events of Pharoah and Lafayette’s book “There are no Children Here” can be tied to lessons in the book of “Juvenile Delinquency.” Some of the more prominent themes are macro level theories, critical theory of labeling, juvenile justice system, and drugs and gangs. In this book summary I will be discussing how these theories can be applied to the book “There Are No Children Here.”

Minors are a diverse group that varies in terms of the severity of criminal acts they commit, the frequency with which they commit criminal acts, how early they begin their criminal career, and how long they commit these crimes for. For many minors, juvenile lawlessness is a short-lived flirtation that disappears as quickly as it emerges. It is common and even normal for minors to engage in trivial forms of misbehavior and delinquency as they mature through adolescence and enter adulthood. However, for some minors, juvenile lawlessness has a more troubling meaning.

| Young people wish to get away from their families through adolescence, they try to fit in with groups and will try to impress and get lead into criminal acts through peer pressure.

These life benchmarks can now justify their consequences with more meaning rather than children under this age group as they have very little knowledge and are still being taught the particularly basic fundamentals of life. Not only do these youths change physically, but their emotional and mental states are also being altered. For example, these include becoming more aware of right and wrong, being affected by peer pressure, and only thinking of present outcomes and not the future . All of these milestones can be contribution to why a youth is committing a crime. Youth are becoming more knowledgeable about their moral sense by 12 years old.

First of all, with the use of plot and character as dramatic elements, MacLeod is able to depict the main characteristics of the nature of adolescence, mainly the search for identity and the quest for independence. Among the scientific community, adolescence is believed to be the most crucial period in human development. It is a period of “rapid biological, social and psychological change” (Soto, et al. 330). There are the transformations that define puberty, there are changes in the relationships and attitudes towards adults and peers, and many teenagers struggle to form a coherent identity (331). In the process of discovering their identities, most adolescents become self-centered. Having not yet

Elizabeth is a 25-year-old cis-gender female who identifies as an Afro-Latinx. Born and raised in the United States, Elizabeth resides in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. She lives in a three-bedroom apartment with two roommates. Elizabeth works full-time in a foster care agency under the family supports department; she attends NYU and is pursuing her master’s of social work. She will graduate in May 2018. Elizabeth is in therapy and is diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and an adjustment disorder with anxiety.

“The Graduate” is a coming of age story as the film attempts to relay a message of an innocent boy being pushed in an unwanted direction through a society filled with expectations. It focuses on the development and the maturing of the young college graduate and his journey from being in the world of a child to adult. It captures what it is to be young, restless, skeptical and confused. It is reflective of a time when no one has any idea what the future has in store. It is Benjamin’s notion of the uncertainty of reaching adulthood, he struggles to accept this transformation and the idea of how frightening the future really is.

Coming of age is maturing from the juvenile world of fantasy and sugarcoated truths and being able to see the world for what it truly is, like an adult. In this novel some experiences that show this coming-of-age theme are portrayed through Dill, Jem, and Scout. These experiences range from Jem beginning puberty, to Scout acting like a mature lady at the the Missionary tea with her Aunt Alexandra, and Scout recognizing Boo Radley as a person. There is one experience that I believe is the most important, which is when Dill begins to recognize how colored people in his community are treated unfairly. In this scene Dill, Jem, and Scout are at the trial. The children are watching the trial from the top of the balcony with Reverend Sykes when Dill

Juvenile Delinquent Theory and Process Midterm Shelby Horton 03/19/2015 Moral panics have always been around, and are usually correlated with crime. Moral panics are often something that is triggered by an event that makes its way through media and stories around the world. With technology growing now more than ever, these panics have found a faster way to expand throughout the world. One moral panic that seemed to cause an uproar in the United States was the effect of heavy metal music in the case of the three men that were convicted in the murders of three young boys, known as the West Memphis Three.

Firstly, Joyce incorporates multiple figures of speech and elements of design to express a purpose through the events that occur in the story. As mentioned before, this story is written in first person perspective of a boy who lives with his aunt and uncle. The perspective best allows readers to understand what this boy encounters every day and his opinion on certain topics. Furthermore, it also allows readers to perceive the feelings this boy has for a girl. For example, the author mentions the boy playing and says, “The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses…” (Joyce, 1). This quote highlights the lively and childish fun the boy has with his friends.

inability to escape their lives. In another of Joyce’s writings, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young

James Joyce’s “Eveline” is a short story about a nineteen-year-old Eveline, who contemplates abandoning a life she is accustomed to and moving to a distant land with a man she hardly knows. In one hand she holds the weight of uncertain happiness, in the other, inevitable misery. Eveline needs to make a choice between two contrasting lives; one in which she is a servant to her father, in other, a respected wife. Following her mother’s death, Eveline assumes the role of a parent and inherits all the chores accompanying it. She works hard at home and “the Stores” (Joyce 74), but for all her troubles, Eveline gets little respect in return. Now with one brother dead and other away on business, she is left alone to keep the family together and