Increasing rate of juvenile crime
Juvenile crimes are rising at alarming rate in present
complex global environment. Large number of adolescents and youths are involved
in delinquent activities like theft, shop lifting, vandalism, and drug
trafficking and alcohol abuse. Juvenile delinquency is the action of committing
a wrongdoing at a very young age.
Teens of broken families jump into criminal world and
become violent. Another leading cause of juvenile crime is lack of finances.
Teens walk into wrong path to enhance their financial status. Lacks of social
and moral training to teens also lead them to juvenile crime. Several
individual factors and characteristics has been related with juvenile felony.
These individual factors include age, gender, complications during pregnancy
and delivery, impulsivity, violence, and substance use. Children's and
adolescents' interactions with family and peers greatly impact the development
of antisocial behaviour. Family interactions are vital factor during early
childhood and it can have long-lasting effects.
Delinquency is also linked with low school performance, absence,
and school dropout at a young age. Poor parenting practices are major risk
factors for this wrongdoing. Parenting practices that are responsible for
juvenile crime are negligence or the absence of supervision throughout
childhood and adolescence, the presence of explicit conflict or abuse,
discipline that is unpredictable or inappropriate to the behaviour and a lack
of emotional support from family.
The problem of juvenile delinquency is getting worse in
present situation and crime prevention programmes are not armed to handle the
present realities or there are less effective strategies to deal with such
crimes.
But many intellectuals, counsellors and law makers
stressed that the most effective preventive techniques to curb Juvenile crime
is to provide good education, recreation, community development, conducting
special program, giving training for parent child interaction, and
bullying prevention program.
To bind up, the graph of Juvenile crimes are in mounting.
These crimes are serious, which is intense threat to human society. The legal
professionals and authorities must formulate and implement policies to curb
these criminal activities.
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