Essays on Juvenile delinquency

Differential Association Theory Differential association theory is one of the Chicago School criminological theories that held a sociological approach to analyzing criminality. The theory was finalized by University of Chicago sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1947 as one of the first to take a major turn away from the classical individualist theories of crime and delinquency….

Labeling theorists explore how and why certain acts are defined as criminal or deviant and why other such acts are not. As such, they also who is identified as a criminal, and who is not. They question how and why certain people become defined as criminal or deviant. Such theorists view criminals not as evil…

            A popular concern of parents over their children’s safety has been the rising number of gang membership in most cities in the country as well as the large number of violence-related behaviors of these gangs. Previous studies on gang violence had focused on the crimes committed by gangs, what caused gang violence and the…

            In the increasing debate of minority criminals and their proneness towards recidivism, there exists the issue of rehabilitation.  In point of fact the entire issue of minority delinquency hinges upon the ability of the offender to re-enter society not as a criminal but as a redemptive individual ready to become a working part of…

INTRODUCTION:Kip Kinkel’s case is about a teenage gunman who actually injured 22 persons at Georgia high school, Kinkel is charged of juvenile with aggravated assault and other additional cases such as cruelty to children charges and other weapon charges. But the person is not cleared of any reason for his assault and has not specified…

Neal and Jesse Eldridge are two young men on trial. For over ten years,they suffered severe physical, emotional, and psychological abuse at the handsof their father. It ended the day they shot and killed him. Now Neal and Jesseare charged, as adults, with first degree murder; they face the possibility of lifein prison. All this…

Nathaniel Abraham was eleven years old when he committed the act of murder. Under a 1997 Michigan law a child of any age may be tried as an adult for severe crimes. Abraham was the first juvenile to be tried under this statute. Accused in the murder of Ronnie Lee Greene Jr., Abraham faced first…

Trying Juveniles as Adults and Placing them into Adult Institutions Juveniles being tried as adults, who is to blame? In today’s society it is not who or whom it is what. Juvenile offenders are now facing a double-edged sword. Not only can they be tried in a Juvenile court for a crime committed. They are…

The Super PredatorDescription: A survey into the causes and proposals for the turning figure of Juvenile Psychopaths known as the Super Predators. What is the “ super marauder ” ? He or she are immature hypercriminals who are perpetrating Acts of the Apostless of force of unprecedented coldness and ferociousness. This newest phenomena in the…