Hi, need to submit a 500 words essay on the topic SC2034C Interpreting crime and criminals prt 2.that is in urgent need of overhaul. Apart from qualitative data derived from MET sources, a questionnai

Hi, need to submit a 500 words essay on the topic SC2034C Interpreting crime and criminals prt 2.

that is in urgent need of overhaul. Apart from qualitative data derived from MET sources, a questionnaire (through telephonic interview) (See Appendix I) tackles the full extant of areas in which the system should harmonise itself, to understand the complexities of juvenile crime.

1.1 Research problem: Understanding the individual and social phenomena comprising juvenile delinquency (youth crime), the causes and consequences thereof and remedial measures to this effect.

1.2 Rationale for research: Criminology is a multidisciplinary study that performs an exploratory analysis of facts that are closely related to the research information for a particular case study. My main purpose of choosing ‘juvenile delinquency’ as a focus topic, was to investigate special findings that have often been neglected in the past. Juvenile crime comprised 17% of all crime in the UK in recent years (MET Info on Juvenile Stats, 2007) and scratching the surface, yielded more reliable data for further understanding of the issues at hand. Poverty and crime are interlinked chapters.

1.3 Research importance: The subject of juvenile crime has gained national media attention in recent years, ever since the Stephen Lawrence murder case. the main reason being due to the gradual tendency of such individuals to become sociopaths in the longer run (McCord & Spatz Widom, 2001). disaffected by society and indifferent to the ethics and moral values contained therein. the importance of this topic can be gauged from the fact that much less research material is available as of today (Singer, 1997), and there is a far, bigger need to understand the problem in totality. Investigators have arrived at