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(Juvenile Delinquency)
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
It refers to an anti-social act or behavior which deviates from the normal
pattern of rules and regulations, customs and culture which society does not accept
and which there justifies some kind of punishment or corrective measures. A
delinquent is one whose behavior has brought a minor or child in repeated conflict
with the law.
Juvenile
- Refers to a persons of tender year
- A minor, a youth or those who are not emancipated by law.
- Those who are below the age of majority
- Refers to a person�s below 18 years of age or those but are unable to fully
take care of themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or
discrimination because of physical or mental disability or conditions.
- R.A. 6809 � an act lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 and amending
for such purpose E.O. 209.
Status Offense
Refers to an act or omission which if committed by an adult may not be
considered punishable but which are generally considered wrong once committed by
minor such as: Truancy, curfew violation, loitering, running away from home without
justifiable cause and others.
Types of Delinquent Youth
1. Social (Socialized) = those who become delinquent due to their association

with people in the society to whom they learned deviant values and later become an
aggressive type who recent the authority of anyone who make an effort to control
his behavior.
2. Neurotic = those who become delinquent as a result of distortion in their

personality and their ideas and perception of the world around them. Internalize
his conflicts and pre-occupied with his own feelings.
3. Psychotic = those with severe personality disorder have a significantly

distorted perception of the society and people around them. They are likely to
commit acts of violence including murder.
4. Sociopathic = characterized by egocentric personality they have limited or no

compassion for others. Many violent gangsters are sociopathic.
5. Accidental = he is less identifiable in character, essentially socialize law

abiding but to be at the wrong place of the wrong time and becomes involve in some
delinquent act not typical of his general behavior.
Different approach toward delinquency
- Biological Approach = faulty biology

- Psychogenic Approach = personality problem
- Sociogenic Approach = influence of social structure and learning process.
CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY:
Family
The family is the first and most basic (autonomous) institution in our society,
which develops the child�s potentials in all its many aspect like emotional,
intellectual, moral and spiritual, and physical and social. Causes of delinquency
in the Family.
1. The faulty development of the child;

2. Lack of parental guidance;
3. Lack of love and the instinct of hate or envy due to unfair treatment;
4. Parental rejection; and
5. Broken home or family.
The family becomes a cause of juvenile delinquency when parents find hard to
balance their jobs with their parental and domestic responsibilities and leaving
little or no time at all for their children, other cited causes are;
a. Family disruption due to migration

b. Marital discord or family problems
c. Nuclear family versus extended family
d. Single parenthood
e. Most importantly, lack of guidance leads the youth to join bad company or
gangs.
The family�s migration to urban areas causes the child to experience a sense of
deprivation, culture shock, and being prone to be victimized by organized and
syndicated crimes, drug addiction, pornography and even prostitution.
>>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 given environment. Our youth 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
charging 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;
4. Crime-inducing situations that causes criminalistic tendencies; and
5. Imitated instinct like selfishness, violence and anti-social wishes.
The environment of a child plays a big role in his development as an individual

since it reflects on the personality structure of the child. The environment also
covers the place where the child grows up, the people around him, and the
conditions both physical, emotional, spiritual plus the mental sep-up of those
close to him.
>>POVERTY
Jobless people are poor, thus become susceptible to crime commission since low-
income families usually take refuge among city relatives who lives in congested and
depressed areas. The implication of this problem on poverty reflects on the
children of poor families whose physical and health welfare are being set aside,
giving more priority to foods.
>> MASS MEDIA
People nowadays are becoming increasingly aware of the influence of mass media in
the lives of their children. Television, radio and the press are sources of
education, as great as or even greater than more tradition institutions of the
community. It is important to examine the collective efforts of this industry on
the development of young people, the values that are being taught by the media; the
images of the adult social roles that the youth sees, and above all, the works done
by the media advertising on youth who became conspicuous co summers at very early
age.
Violent comic cartoons are easily imitated by younger a generation that produces
violent behavior later. Twisted values inculcated into the minds of our youth,
manifest violent behavior later and distorted principles that most often irritating
relationship is the usual outcome among people close to him.
>>POLICE
The police as the first line of defense against crime must deal with the serious
problem of youth crime. And the importance of this juvenile-police relation should
ignore by our law enforcers because they are the juvenile�s first contact with the
justice system.
The police must become a close working partner of other components of criminal
justice system just as it should also be of the juvenile justice system, if real
progress is to be made in this problem. It must be noted that broad field of
police-juvenile work is becoming increasingly important in order prevent
delinquency.
The proper discharge of police responsibilities should be carried through the

following:
1. Close observation of places and conditions which may be regarded as breeding

places for youth crime and delinquency;
2. Police should always be in a better position than others to discover the

existence of harmful influence to children;
3. The police should know who are potential or actual delinquents and recognize
who are victims of abuse and neglect;
4. They should also give emphasis to the public that home is the most vital
force in the prevention of the juvenile delinquency.
>> Peers, Companions, and Juvenile Gangs
These groups of people interact with the youth in a positive and negative ways. In
a negative outcome of a relationship. The results 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 Gang = 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 particular
territory, facility or type of enterprise.
>>RELIGION
A child�s development usually involves the inculcation of a set of moral belief

that lead in the direction of socially approved behavior. Religion becomes a
causative factor in juvenile delinquency when its traditional role in the area of
delinquency prevention fails much more when its religious leaders or spokesperson
remain un forceful in delinquency problem. When members of the religious community
take an active part in the problem of delinquency behavior among the youth, with
its full blast of support and mobilization, the juvenile problem will be minimized
if not totally eradicated.
>>SCHOOL
The school, unlike the family, is a public instrument for training young people.
Hence, the school is more directly accessible to change through the development of
new resources and policies. And, since it is the principal institutions for the
development of a basic commitment to the goals and values of our society. It is
expected that our educational institutions be provided with the resources to
compete with illegitimate attraction for the youth�s mind. These 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;
3. Truancy
4. Lack of facilities for curricular and extra-curricular activities
5. Absence of proper motivation on the part of the school�s mentors
>> Other Factors

1. Unemployment
2. Emotional immaturity � when a youth refuse to accept the truth and becomes
too emotional in many aspect of his life;
3. Too much ego � whether right or wrong; safe or dangerous, permitted or

prohibited;
4. Psychopath personality � characterize by lack of response lack of conscience,

deficient feeling of affection towards other, and aggression towards his
environment and other people.

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(Juvenile Delinquency)

- A minor, a youth or those who are not emancipated by law.

- Those who are below the age of majority

Types of Delinquent Youth

1. Social (Socialized) = those who become delinquent due to their association

2. Neurotic = those who become delinquent as a result of distortion in their

3. Psychotic = those with severe personality disorder have a significantly

4. Sociopathic = characterized by egocentric personality they have limited or no

5. Accidental = he is less identifiable in character, essentially socialize law

Different approach toward delinquency

- Biological Approach = faulty biology

- Sociogenic Approach = influence of social structure and learning process.

CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY:

1. The faulty development of the child;

a. Family disruption due to migration

1. Association with criminal groups;

The environment of a child plays a big role in his development as an individual

>> MASS MEDIA

The proper discharge of police responsibilities should be carried through the

1. Close observation of places and conditions which may be regarded as breeding

2. Police should always be in a better position than others to discover the

>> Peers, Companions, and Juvenile Gangs

Juvenile Gang = self-formed association of peers bound together by mutual interest,

A child�s development usually involves the inculcation of a set of moral belief

1. Failure of the school in the character development of the youth;

>> Other Factors

3. Too much ego � whether right or wrong; safe or dangerous, permitted or

4. Psychopath personality � characterize by lack of response lack of conscience,

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