Identify And Explain The Factors That Affect A Child's Future Environment

Children that are born into poverty and less than desirable conditions are more times than not, destined to become involved in the juvenile justice system. This may be due the child’s destructive behaviors or for placement out of concern for the child’s safety and well-being. Neglect and abuse is more prevalent in disadvantaged environments and causes sometimes-irreversible emotional problems. For whatever reason the child enters the system, we know that it is not a place for youth to grow, be nurtured and become productive members of society.

There are many factors that can influence a child and young person’s development, particularly in relation to their background. The formative years can be termed as crucial in regards to development and any major setback can create many problems for the future.

Incidents like abuse from family members, bullying, neglect, and sexual abuse are the most common. Repeated abuse can lead to psychological damage and emotional scarring. Not only are traumatic psychological experiences causing these juveniles to commit violent crimes. Situations, where children have poor education, a household without discipline, peer pressure, inadequate role models, low income, and substance abuse coupled with the wrong environment, can lead to a life of crime. These negative influences guide these juveniles on the wrong path towards crime. However, it does not mean these juveniles cannot succeed; it is however up to the juvenile to make the correct choices in their

A child development is influenced in many ways such as their background, health and environment. These factors will have an impact on the child’s different areas of development.

1.describe the social, economic and cultural factors that will impact on the lives of children and young people (unit 7)

The primary risk factors for criminal behavior majorly come into play in the early years of a person’s life.

Children's and young people's development is influenced by a range of external and personal factors in the following waysPhysical and cognitive impairment can be the result of problems such as foetal alcohol syndrome where a foetus has been exposed to alcohol in the womb. Also lack of nutrients, stress and pollutants such as cigarette smoke may contribute to the development of a child, and can even slow it down.

Neighborhoods with higher poverty, ethnic diversity, and population instability are associated with higher rates of crime and delinquency. All of these things contribute to the breakdown of social cohesion and informal social control (O’Brien, 2006), creating an unlikely environment for early childhood development and optimal outcome.

The primary risk factors for this family are social risk factors. As noted by Lieberman and Van Horn (2008), negative outcomes for children increase with multiple risk factors. Amarika’s family faces racial discrimination, given their ethnic identify as African Americans. They also reside in an unsafe neighborhood where gang violence often occurs. Given their inability to move from this area, it can be assumed they are also facing poverty. Mrs. Lawrence is a single mother of two daughters, one of whom is also a young single mother. We also have to consider the political climate, as the family has little influence to change the way that police protect (or fail to protect) their community. The gang violence is an unfortunate part of the community and African American culture in our country. All of these risk factors increase the likelihood that Amarika may experience another traumatic

This reading evaluate the trends for violence, crime, and abuse in the lives of children. This study provides updated estimates for exposure to a wide variety of offenses, including violence, crime, and abuse. This exposure is wide spread in the short term and over the developmental life course. Children and youth are exposed to violence, abuse, and crime in varied and extensive ways, which justifies continued monitoring and prevention

Many young children are now being influenced by individuals that can physically and mentally harm their well-being. There are too many young children being seen through the incarceration systems solely because of the environment that they are raised in. In a study done by Elizbeth Barnert, “With 2 million youth arrested annually in the United States and 60,000 detained, justice-involved youth represent a large, high-risk, vulnerable population largely hidden from public view” (Barnet). This goes to show that the youth is not being taken care of responsibly or are not being placed into the right environment. Juvenile incarceration is detrimental to their physical and mental health, these children have been influenced in the past as well as incarceration

A person's childhood will ultimately determine the course of the rest of their lives. Statistically, children who are born into poor locations are more likely to commit robberies and to engage in gang-related criminality. The people who are most at-risk are African American youth, particularly males from single-parent households (Wheelock & Ugeen 2006, page 2). Within low-income areas, there are many associated hardships including lack of educational opportunities, health care, potential employment, and an influx of

P., Cochran, J. C., & Cullen, F. T, 2015)”. Transfer of juveniles into adult justice system exposes them to victimization. They become victims of the criminal justice system as well as the harsh penalties (Stimson, 2015). Once they are locked up in adult prisons, young offenders are also victimized by other inmates. Victimization may be in form of bodily harm or verbal abuse. Furthermore, Juvenile offenders are unable to defend themselves against any form of harassment which they may be exposed to. Such acts contribute to the development of errant behaviors among the offenders. The environment in the jails, therefore, encourages relapse and commission of violent crimes. Despite the compelling need for harsher penalties, the criminal justice system must keep rehabilitation as their number goal to see any overall improvement (Aizer, A., & Doyle, J. J., 2015).

Juvenile justice system in the US focuses not only in disciplining juvenile offenders but also in trying to come with factors which accelerate these offences. This is with the aim of avoiding these problems in future and also trying to identify the most effective methods of handling juvenile offenders. One of the main causes of delinquency is maltreatment, especially during the early stages of life. This has been identified as the main risk factor for delinquency among children. However, there are variations in maltreated children who later become juvenile delinquents. Recent studies show that a significant percentage of children who are abused do not necessarily become juvenile delinquents. This proves that there are other factors which

There are many different variations of language, language that is seen, such as sign language, body language and written language, then there is the language that is heard, such as people speaking. There are over 7,000 spoken languages in the world alone without taking into consideration nonverbal languages. For adults and children alike, this can be overwhelming because in each language there are different behaviour patterns, different registers, different age groups and what is acceptable in one language may not be considered acceptable in another such as how close is too close to stand to someone else. For children who come from families whose first language is not English, this is even more difficult when trying to live somewhere that doesn’t predominately speak their first language, which is just one of the many differences people have to be aware of when considering diversity. This essay will examine the different environmental and circumstantial factors that may influence the development of children and the role that language can play in their lives as they grow, such as what and who children are exposed to, positive and negative influences such as adults and other children and the lifelong impact these surroundings have on the child.