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Juvenile Delinquency and Family Structure
Kanisha Turner
Educational Research EDU 5523, Section 10
University of the Southwest
Topical Reference List: Juvenile Delinquency and Family Structure
Article 1
Boys and girls, family size in childhood and low academic motivation in adolescence were related to trouble with the law by age 16. However, father’s involvement was negative related to trouble with the police. Trouble with the law in adolescence was also related with non-intact family structure in childhood in girls, and with parental criminality in boys.
Flouri, E., Buchannan, A. (2002). Father involvement in childhood and trouble with the police in
Adolescence. Journal of interpersonal violence. 17:689-694. Retrieved from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0886260502017006006
Research in the study of family structure and Juvenile Delinquency had moved from broken/ intact families and start investigating on the impact of more specified family structures on juvenile offending. Youth from broken home are at higher risk than youth from intact home partial due to weaker parental control and supervision in non-intact homes.
Book 1
Gives an overview of different theories that helps explain criminal behavior. Gottfredson and Hirschi’s self-control theory is one of many theories that the books help us to understand criminal behavior. The theory explains how individuals with low self-control are more likely to commit crime than individuals with high self-control. (ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR)
Goode, E. (2008). Out of Control: Assessing the general theory of crime. Stanford:
University Press.
Self-control theory direct attention almost exclusively to the family. This theory shows the cause of crime as characteristically negative; it is the absence of effective socialization that leads to crime. According, to Gottfreson and Hirschi’s, the theory of low self-control states that ineffective child rearing can lead to low self-control, and low self-control increases the risk of delinquency in an individual.
Book 2
The author of this book refers children who act against the law are called Juvenile Delinquents. The author also provides the background of Juvenile Delinquency, the development of the Juvenile court system, data used to measure different characteristics of juvenile delinquency, theories that explain Juvenile delinquency and ways to control Juvenile Delinquency in our future. (ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR)
Hughes, L., Short, J. (2008). Juvenile Delinquency and Delinquents the Nexus of social change.
Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Comparing different years’ arrest rate made by law enforcement against Juveniles, the arrest was on the rise for many years. The concern is how to respond to juveniles who violate laws, particularly those who commit serious and violent crimes. Law enforcement has consequences not only for children but also for their parents, police and other authorities and for communities. The Juvenile court system seeks to do delinquents from adult criminals.
Article 2
A study conducted investigating the relationship among parent, sibling, peer group and deviant behavior. After collecting the data, it supported the hypothesis that the influence of bad parenting, negative sibling and negative peer association all result in delinquency.
Jungmeen, K., Hetherinton, E., Reiss., D. (1999). Associations among family relationships,
Antisocial peers, and adolescents externalizing behaviors: Gender and family type
Differences. Child development, 70(5), pg. 1209-1230. Retrieved from http://www.academicroom.com/article/associations-among-family-relationships-antisocial-peers-and-adolescents-externalizing-behaviors-gender-and-family-type-
As I stated before, parental negativity and parental monitoring results in Juvenile delinquency. Well peer’s association, negative sibling can also result in juvenile delinquency. The saying, “we are who we hang with”. When people associates themselves with negative people they start to become negative as well.
Book 3
Kupchik finds that prosecuting a juvenile in court doesn’t fit with cultural understanding of being a youth. When juveniles are transferred to criminal court they are still being called Juveniles. He argues different ways of treating juveniles in juvenile court. He suggested that justice would be better served if the system was designed to address juvenile’s special needs. (ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR)
Kupchick, A. (2006). Judging juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in adult and juvenile courts.
New York.
Several juvenile cases have been denied in juvenile court and punished in criminal adult court. What happened to the idea that adolescents are less mature, and therefore less culpable, blameworthy, for their offenses than adults? Juveniles who committed sever crime should be treated as adults rather than as juveniles.
Article 3
A research study conducted in Northern Finland 1966 on males ages between 15 and 22 years. The study compared education and mental disability with delinquency. A higher delinquency rate was found amongst those with low economic status and low intellect. Poor school performance will later result in social problems and delinquency. (ABSTARCT FROM AUTHOR)
Marjo-Ritta, J., Laara, E., Rantakallio, P., Moilanen, I., Isohanni, M. (1994). Juvenile
Delinquency, education, and mental disability. Exceptional Children, 61(3), pg. 230.
Sage Publication, Inc. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.usw.edu:8111/
Poor school performance is one of many factors that cause Juvenile Delinquency. Why does school performance causes a child to later become delinquent? The reason why is because the child might feel left out from the other students. This might cause a child to feel alone. Feeling alone is not a great feeling and some kids don’t know how to cope with that feeling so they turn to deviant acts.
Article 4
Relationship between parental characteristics and children misconduct were evaluated about predictions made by social learning, control and strain theories of delinquency. There are characteristics that economic distressed to the point being unable to provide food, medical care, and shelter are all the characteristic of strain theory. (ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR)
Prochnow, F., DeFronzo, J. (1997). The impact of economic and parental characteristic on
Juvenile Misconduct. Journal of emotional & Behavioral disorders. 5:119-128. Retrieved
From http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/106342669700500206
Juvenile delinquency result from not being able to achieve goals. Being unable to achieve goals can result in anger and delinquency. If a child is unable to achieve in school or growing up in a unstable home can result in a juvenile turning to the streets. When a child turn to the streets they might do so because they feel more secure or being able to support themselves by providing food, clothes and more.
Article 5
The following authors examines adolescent’s adjustment problems between divorce and intact families explain by parental conflict, psychological adjustment and practice of custodial parent and involvement of noncustodial parent. When mother is the custodial parent and father is less involved this explains the association between divorce and boy’s deviant acts. Whereas, the father the custodial parent and mother less involved explains the associations between divorce and girls deviant act. (ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR)
Simons, R., Lin, K., Gordon, L., Conger, R., and Lorenz, F. (1999). Explaining the higher
Incidence of adjustment problems among children of divorce compared with those
in two parent families. Journal of marriage and family, 61(4), pg. 1020-1033.
National council on family relations. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/354021
Research has shown that parents are more likely to engage ineffective parenting practice than are who are married. Dimension of parenting most consistently link to number of parents in the home. Also, single parent house hold is more likely to be less stable than a two-parent biological house hold.
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