Juvenile_Delinquent

Juvenile Delinquent By Matthew Hunt 11-23-2010 ENGL106 Abstract This essay will be explaining what a juvenile delinquent is. It will also show some experiances people have went through. This essay is about juvenile delinquents. Also, the experiences that have helped change the juvenile delinquents. It will show how the justice system can change or help change juvenile delinquents. A juvenile delinquent is a child or young person below a particular age who has commited a criminal offence or who habitually commits criminal offences.(Merriam-Webster Inc. and Longman Group Ltd.,1986) The juvenile system helps the delinquents become better people and tries to teach skills that can be used in the real world. Juvenile delinquency has become popular among the general public. Why do children behave this way' How does this effect the future that lies ahead of them' Is there a method that works to change their behavior' Also, I want to get different ideas on if the young adults really change for the good. There was this one case a hundred years ago where a twelve year old boy was sentenced to death in London. Back then the court system seen through their eyes that everyone committing the crime no matter the age difference got punished the same way. At the end of the century Europe and the United States started using the principle of individualized treatment of saving the child instead of punishing them. There are things that the government provided that are suppose to help with juveniles that deal with truancy and behavior problems. A few things that help or at least suppose to are probation, foster homes, and institutional care. One point of view states that basically that the general public who is trying to find fault and who to blame. They need to see that the cause of juvenile delinquency is natural and universal. Problems of a juvenile child are problems of all children. Basically, young adults who act this way don’t mean to. What I mean is that they act this way to feel secure like as they need food and warmth to stay alive. Or James S. Plant stated, “ It is precisely as the individual with his life to lead meets the more rigid, the more fixed, the more dominate needs of the institutions which surround him that stun arises, that tension arises, maladynstmend and delinquency.” There is fact that boys who go before juvenile courts are more problematic than those of girls. Stated from the Childrens Bureau that most charges in boys are “stealing or attempted stealing” and “ acts of caulessness and mischief” as in girls it is “ running away,” and “sex offense.” There are no single cause of juvenile delinquency. It starts usually early in the childhood, the period which the childs life regards as the most inpertened personality and characteristic of their development. This effects there future in many ways. One way is if they do not change they tend to drop out of school. Another way it effects them is the way people treat them and looks at them. Also, they could end up in jail or even prison. I know this because I was that juvenile that acted up all the time. Coming from my point of view, the reason why I was that way was because I liked the attention I got. Also, because my mother was to easy on me. I could get anything from her. I know the system can and does work it changed my life to be a good dad and a hard worker. But, I did have to work hard to get to where I am today. References http://wf2dnvr9.webfeat.org/ -Merriam-Webster Inc. and Longman Group Ltd,1986, updating and new material Penguin Books,2002,2003 http://www.mchlibrary.info/history/chbu/20669-1932.pdf