JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
( PART 3)
By: FO1 MARIECON JOY D GARROTE, RCRIM
AMERICA PHILLIPINES
JUVENILE CHILD
JUVENILE DELINQUENT CHILD IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW
(CICL)
WAYWARD MINOR CHILD AT RISK
PEERS, COMPANIONS AND
JUVELINE GANGS
• Those groups of people interact with the youth in a positive and negative
ways. In a negative outcome of a relationship, the result are problems
which are practically derived from different values, personality structures
and emotional composition of people around the youth. Most importantly
group behavior continues to be the source of delinquent acts.
JUVENILE GANGS
• Self-formed association of peers bound together by mutual interest, with
identifiable leadership, well-developed lines of authority and other
organizational features, who act in concert to achieve a specific purpose
which generally to include the conduct of illegal activity and control
over a territory, facility or type of enterprise.
- “Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are.”
SCHOOL
• Considered as the “second home” of the child, with
teachers as the second parents institution responsible for
the training of young person’s intellectual, moral as well as
social skills which they need for them to grow up as
productive law-abiding and responsible citizens.
These are the factors that create a gap between
institution child relationships are the following:
1. Failure of the school in the character development of the youth;
2. Use of methods that create the condition of failure on the part of the students
(underachiever- those who fail to meet expected levels of school
achievement);
3. Truancy;
4. Absence of proper motivation on the part of the school mentor’s (School
shooting)
5. Bullying – repeated, negative acts committed by one or more children against
another, which may be physical or verbal.
ENVIRONMENT
• This is where the child gets most of his influence, especially in his first
formative years. Youth in the society turns to become delinquent due to
companions in a given environment. Our youth today accused those ahead of
them of failure to today accused those ahead of them of failure to define how to
live with the right values, with honor and success in a world that is changing too
fast for them to understand. Some of the results of a crime-inducing
environment are the following;
1. Association with criminal groups;
2. Alcoholism and drug addiction;
3. Impulse of fear
THEORY
• Is a set of statements devised to explain behaviors, events or phenomenon,
especially that has been repeatedly tested and widely accepted.
DIFFERENT THEORETICAL APPROACH
• Nature approach
• Nurture Approach
• Differential Reinforcement Theory
• Differential Association Theory
• Social Disorganization Theory
• Demonological Theory
• Sub-culture Theory
DIFFERENT THEORETICAL
APPROACH
• Strain Theory
• Drift Theory
• Doing Gender Theory
• Aging Out Phenomenon
• Imitation Theory
• Cultural transmission
NATURE THEORY
• Alfred Binet
• This theory argues that intelligence is largely determined genetically; that ancestry
determines IQ and that low intelligence as demonstrated by low IQ is linked to behavior
including criminal behavior.
NURTURE THEORY
• Views that focused on how the environment affects the behavior of
one person.
DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT
THEORY
• Behavior persists depending on the degree to which it was rewarded or
punishment.
DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION
THEORY
• Edwin Sutherland
• Also known as “peer group theory”
• This theory reflects the way people react to a given situation based on the
social influences they acquired from other people that practically determine
their behaviors. This theory likewise serves as the learning process of
delinquent behaviors and considered as one of the most important theory in
crime causation.
• Behaviors are not inherited but learned.
SOCIAL DISORGANIZATIONAL
THEORY
• Shaw and Mckay
• Views that focuses on the breakdown of the institutions such as family,
school, and employment in inner city neighborhood.
DEMONOLOGICAL THEORY
• Criminal behaviors was due to evil spirits
SUB-CULTURE THEORY
• The main difference between a criminal and a non-criminal is that each is
responding to different sets of conduct norms.
STRAIN THEORY
• Views that crime is a direct result of lower-class frustration and anger due
to attained goals.
DRIFT THEORY (NEUTRALIZATION
THEORY)
• David Matza
• People are always aware of their moral obligation to abide by the law and
that they have the same moral obligation.
• Also adopted the concept of freewill such that delinquent youths were
“drifting” between criminal and non-criminal behavior and were free to
choose whether to take part or not.
DOING-GENDER THEORY
• Men’s struggle to dominate women to prove their manliness. Violence
directed toward women is an especially economical way to demonstrate
manhood.
AGING OUT PHENOMENON
• Process which the individual reduces the frequency of the offending
behavior as their age increases.
IMITATION THEORY
• Gabriel Tarde
• Theory of Imitation
• States that individuals copy behavior patterns of other individuals, and
that those with weaker personalities tend to get influenced easier by those
with stronger personalities.
CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
• A phenomenon that refers to the handling down of delinquent behaviors
as socially learned and transferred from one generation to the next
taking place mostly among to different sets of conduct norms.
“IT TOOK A VILLAGE TO RAISE A
CHILD”
THANK YOU
