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    A juvenile delinquent is “someone between 12 and 17 years of age who through the due process of law has been found to have violated criminal legislation and is therefore subject to punishments determined by a youth court.” (Edmund W. Vaz, Stephan W. Baron) Juvenile Detention is an effective punishment for young adolescents because of the decrease in youth crime rate. Juvenile delinquency is important because it is one of society’s values. When a child or young adult commits a crime, they need to

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    Under the Juvenile Delinquency Act, juveniles are entitled to some protection during interrogations. The speed of arraignment in court for a juvenile differs with that of an adult. It is a requirement that upon arrest an officer should inform a juvenile of his or her legal rights in a language that is understandable to the juvenile. The attorney must also inform a court of lack of jurisdiction, lack of juvenile programs and that the juvenile court or the offence being charged is a crime of violence

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         Juvenile delinquents, or youth that have been convicted of a crime, seem to be the norm these days. Citizens, families, and poliy makers want new programs and policies within the juvenile justice system. Researchers have found that the family structure can be a precursor to delinquent behavior, and families do not have the control or blance that they once did. As such, mew measures need to be implemented to help these families in crisis. Rehabilitation of the family

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    Reasons For Juvenile Delinquency In America there's a lot of juvenile delinquency.So on that note this article is going to be about to talk about the main reasons for juvenile delinquency,juvenile delinquency is a crime that is committed by kids twelve or down or teenagers thirteen or up nevertheless a child that is not an adult which is committing a crime.The main ones are rejection,growing up in a bad neighborhood,parents teaching the kids to be more aggressive,gender role coming into play,and

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    that these concerns are a major factor of juvenile delinquency. At the same time, parents of delinquent children are often blamed for their childs behaviors. As per Families and Living Arrangements (2006), there were 12.9 million one-parent families in 2006, 10.4 million custodial mother families and 2.5 million custodial father families" (Bergman, 2006). Over the years, research has made many efforts in looking for what factors impact the juvenile delinquency. Most Studies demonstrate that single parent

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    Families and Juvenile Delinquency

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    lives, family responsibilities may provide an important stabilizing force. Given these possibilities, family life may directly contribute to the development of delinquent and criminal tendencies. Parental conflict and child abuse correlate with delinquency. Though not all children who grow up in conflictive or violent homes become delinquent, however, being exposed to conflict and violence appears to increase the risk of

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    the factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency and the solutions to correct or prevent this delinquency. In the history of the construction and implementing federal laws, it has been imperative to take actions and make procedures in response to the increasing number of minors who violate the laws. The formation of a juvenile justice system that is made up of proper course and development was created. It is important to point out the reasons why these juveniles do offensive and criminal acts

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    Juvenile Justice has been a work in progress from the beginning of the program because of the evolving mentality of the generations. The purpose of Juvenile Justice was to correct the behavior of the juvenile delinquents and rehabilitation through a probationary period monitored by an individual who paid for bail and periodically reported behavior changes to courts. (Mulligan 2009) We do justice to the youth offenders by understanding the history of Juvenile Justice restorative programs, the alternatives

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    Introduction Juvenile delinquency is becoming one of the largest problems facing society, due to the fact that there are many different factors; from parental factors to bullying or being bullied at school. Juvenile delinquency is somewhat a very complicated problem that is sometimes very difficult to understand and to explain, part of the reasons for all of this may be that it shares a relationship with many social institutions, from law enforcement to juvenile and adult court to the media, families

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    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. The sociological factor encompasses many

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