Parent Incarceration And Juvenile Delinquency

The background literature for this topic has been subdivided into three categories. To understand the impact of incarceration we must first look at the parent-child relationship, warm parental interactions are associated with effective problem solving in adolescence and adulthood, while hostile interactions are associated with destructive adolescent behavior (Ge, Best, Conger & Simons, 1996a; Rueter & conger, 1995). We must observe the

this is point out that family, school and other social environment can lead young people to be a good person or a person who break law. I will focus on parts of family and school to support Rio’s idea. There is evidence that family relations are closely linked to (non) crimes. In a study examining the impact of social control on crime, these studies found a negative correlation between parental attachment and crime. Therefore, the greater the attachment to parents, the less likely they are to engage in illegal activities. It is noteworthy that in only one study of this report, only one parent was found to have no influence on criminal behavior (Brannigan et al., 2002). Also according to Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck’s article of “Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency”, they found that the impact of fathers and mothers on children is one of the five best predictors of crime. They also found that from another perspective, emotional relationships between children and their parents tend to be weaker among criminals. From this we can conclude that family attachment plays a role in the child's socialization and maintains his or her subsequent compliance with social rules. Researchers report that home attachments may explain the obvious impact of other variables. These interrelationships are certainly evidence of the importance of parental supervision. They are better seen as evidence of the importance of communication between parents and children (Glueck, S., & Glueck, E. 1950).

Being the child of an incarcerated parent has substantial amounts of negative influences on youth today. As young children, many consider their parents as role models. Someone who they can confide in, someone who will preserve them, and someone who will guide them through life. For most youngsters having an incarcerated parent, means that their admirable example in life is absent. Not having a parent present in one's childhood leads to innumerable negative outcomes and impacts.

What is the relationship between family dynamics and juvenile delinquency? Can the family environment really affect the delinquency of a juvenile? A broken home is one of the first factors that will be looked at. Do single parents have more juveniles involved in delinquency than families with two parents? Do families with just a mother present have more delinquency than a family with just a father? The second factor that will be looked at is drugs and alcohol in the home. How does drugs and alcohol relate to violence in the home? When parents get in trouble for their drug and alcohol use and get locked up, how is the family affected by this? The third factor that will be looked at is bad parenting. Is bad parenting caused simply by being too strict or not strict enough? Or could it be that parents lack the proper supervision of their children and allow them to do things that they shouldn’t? All of these factors will be looked at and discussed within this paper.

There is a fair amount of research surrounding parents being incarcerated, and the effects it can have on those they leave on the outside. Children with incarcerated parents can have quite a few factors working against them. This can cause behavioural and emotional issues (Merenstein, Tyson, Tilles, Keays, & Rufffolo, 2011). There is a need for social support from adult role models. This includes caregivers, teachers and other adults in the community activities they are involved in ( Luther, 2015; Merenstein, et al., 2011). One of the issues children who have one, or both, parents incarcerated face, is the stigma surrounding parental incarceration. This stigma can be from either peers, adults in the community and teachers. (Dellaire,

Chapter one is all about the framework for understanding parental incarceration. While reading this chapter, there was a lot facts I knew or didn’t know like we discuss in class. Professor Ann Adalist-Estrin told everybody in class to write what knew about parental incarceration. This chapter talks about all the families and children dress up in their Saturday best outfit sitting on their mother’s slaps, rolling around on the dirty floor, trying to make something out paper to entertain themselves while in jail waiting to see their love ones. Historically criminal justice have been study within criminology and a family lens was not utilize. So reading this chapter show the study of incarceration with particular emphasis on parent’s incarcerations

The youth in the United States are at a high risk due to parents being the number one highest rate of incarcerated people in the world. Incarceration of parents is a beneficial research topic because children and adolescents perceive going to prison is a pleasant place, but caregivers explain to children that bad people that do terrible things go to prison. Kids are under a tremendous pressure from the social stigma which makes them feel they will end up like their parents. This topic has keened an interest because children of incarcerated parents are going through a tough time when parents are absent from their lives and do not have people around to lean upon when they are facing problems that are internally or externally. I am trying to learn the effects, perception, knowledge, trauma, and emotion of children which face problems to facilitate a positive or negative outcome to having incarcerated parents. I want to help readers understand the reasons that children from minority families believe they will turn out to be criminals like their parents because society has deemed their minds to think internally and externally which caused major stress to their behaviors.

Parental incarceration contains strong risk factors for psychopathology, which includes antisocial behaviour. It can also threaten childrens attachment issues, due to restricted contact with the incarcerated parent, and unstable care giving arrangements. Having an incarcerated parent can also produce a stigma which in turn can lead to having negative effects on the children, i.e. in school.

This is about the result of delinquent acts due to a juvenile’s bond to society being weak or broken. Travis Hirschi was the theorist that looked into this theory and found many links to delinquent behavior. One of them is that the quality of bond an individual has with society reflects on whether they have behaviors toward crime or not. Commitment to social bond, the attachment that a juvenile has to conventional institutions and activities, has four elements that help describe the strong or weak bond a person may have to society which are attachment, commitment, involvement, and beliefs. An insight with these elements is that if an individual does not have beliefs, is not involved, have commitment or attachment, they are more likely to turn to crime because they won’t have positive bonds to desist them from it. This seems to be more likely with children from broken families because they are missing one or more of the four elements in their life and especially in this day and age with politics dividing society so much. Parents play a big role when it comes to respecting the legal system. An example from this in Voices of Delinquency is that some of the kids didn’t have good relationships with their parents which lead to them not being taught the respect the legal system requires to work smoothly. Overall, social control is happening everywhere in one way or

There is little basic research on children and families with incarcerated parents, and thus, there are many unanswered questions. Some of these questions are: the effects of parental criminality and parental absence during incarceration on children; the effect of parental involvement and familial relationships on adult recidivism; and the effect of high rates of incarceration on family and community stability. Answering these kinds of questions would involve undertaking prospective, longitudinal studies that: follow families at risk of incarceration to determine the impact of incarceration, beyond other risk factors such as poverty and exposure to violence; develop and use multidisciplinary approaches; use developmentally appropriate, standardized

To determine the effectiveness causal factors of crime the social control and bonding theory will be applied by conducting a meta-analysis on an empirical study. The Social Control Theory tells us about the behavior of juveniles and how they relate to the ties of society. A juvenile that has a strong bond to its society produce more positive actions. A juvenile that has a weak bond with its community can lead to criminal behavior. The Social Control Theory implies that the environment can affect behavior. The study of the Social Control Theory focuses on “the relationship between social control and social learning at the level of inter-personal relations, specifically the joint influences between parents and peers as they relate to delinquent behavior”(Champion, 2004). Family ties, commitment to society, and the belief of what is important are a few elements of the social control theory. The Social Bond Theory puts focus on an individual and their peer influences and peer groups. In this theory, attachment is extremely important when it pertains to parental figures. The strength or weakness of a family is a great variable and

Family involvement and therapy is an important part of the rehabilitation process for juvenile delinquents. Research has shown that for many juvenile delinquents come from families where there are many siblings so time is stretched and each child does not get adequate attention. Also, the parents are not involved because of other issues such as substance abuse, incarceration, and or poverty. Supportive families help the former offender overcome difficult program experiences while going through the rehabilitation process (Mincey,

Juvenile delinquency is one of the burning issues all over the world and reform initiatives are going on in many countries. In this study the four parenting styles namely Authoritarian, Authoritative, Neglecting and Permissive parenting styles of the paternal and maternal care-takers of the juvenile delinquents were analysed to find its relation with the self control of the juvenile delinquents. Census method was used in this study as the data had been collected from all the inmates of the eight observation homes of Tamilnadu, India. The binary logistic regression revealed that paternal parenting style predicted the prevalence of Fraud (property offences). On the other hand maternal parenting styles predicted the prevalence of Force (personal offences). All the four parenting styles of paternal and maternal care-takers have a strong relation with the self control of the juvenile delinquents which also indirectly predicts prevalence of the corresponding types of offence. Therefore appropriate parenting by both the care-takers is important to bring about control over juvenile delinquency.

The horrifying complexities of why a child foray’s into juvenile delinquency can easily be broken down into two comparable approaches; and those approaches are psychology and sociology. Psychology is such an important aspect of juvenile delinquency that one study of incarcerated youth found at least 88% of males and 90% of females had a psychiatric disorder of some kind, so the psychological aspect can determine a potential problem with almost 100% certainty.

Juvenile Delinquency has been a major issue challenging various law enforcement professionals and sociology researchers around the world. Acts of delinquency committed by the juvenile sector particularly disrupts the social order of an egalitarian society where individual freedom is a primary societal goal. The bringing up of juveniles on the right social path requires the effort of the overall society, local community, and the family. There have been many efforts made in the U.S. to control juvenile delinquency. Some of those efforts have been reactive while others have been proactive attempts to take in account the root cause of delinquent behavior. This proposal is a template of how societies need to approach the overall issue of juvenile delinquency via a better understanding of the underlying sociological and psychological issues involved.