Causes of Delinquency
- Theoretical Causes
1.1 Rational Choice
1.2 Social Disorganization
1.3 Bad Company
1.4 Labeling - External Causes
2.1 Atmosphere at home
2.2 Neighborhood
2.3 Guardian’s Behavior
Also known as “emotional disturbance” in teens has no single know cause but there are a number factors that can together foster a predisposition for it
Emotional Behavior Disorder
Signs and Symptoms of Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Difficulty in Learning which cannot be explained by intellectual challenges or any other health issues
- An inability to develop healthy, interpersonal relationship with teachers and peers
- Inappropriate thoughts, emotions or actions under normal circumstances
- Frequent unhappiness, depression, fear or anxiety about life or school
Biological Factors | Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol
- A physical illness or disability
- An undermourished or malnourished lifestyle
- Brain damage
- Hereditary Factors
Home Life | Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Poverty
- Parent’s separation
- Inconsistent rules and unhealthy discipline
- Lack of concern to teens
- Family are poor role models
- Abusive parents or siblings
- Low rate of positive interactions and high rate of negative interactions in the family
- Family’s poor attitude towards school or education
School | Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Teachers creating a negative environment
- School is insensitive to student differences or cultural issues
- Inconsistent rules
Preventive Measures | Emotional Behavior Disorder
- Create consistency in your teen’s life and maintain a positive environment
- Provide clear and direct instructions to your teen for home and school life
- Correct negative factors in teen’s environment and encourage undesirable behavior
- Punish undesirable behavior and reward desirable behavior
- Create a plan for conflict resolution
- Invest your teen’s life and encourage their participation and belonging at home and at school
Causes of Behavioral Disorder
- Predisposing Factor
- Precipitating Factor
Inherited propensities that cannot be considered a criminal one unless there is a probability that a crime will be committed
Predisposing Factor
Elements which provoke crime or factors that are signified to the everyday adjustments of an individual
Precipitating Factor
Causation of Juvenile Delinquency
(FESPO-UP)
- Family Factors
- Environmental Factors
- School Factors
- Political or Governmental Factor
- Other Factors
: Unemployment
: Psychopathic Personality
It refers to the life events or experiences that are associated with an increase in problem behaviors.
Risk Factors
Five Categories of Risk Factors:
(1) Individual characteristics,
(2) Peer group,
(3) School,
(4) Family and
(5) Community
Refer to a self-formed association of peers, bound together by mutual interest with identifiable leaderships, well developed lines of authority and other organizational features who act in concert to achieve a specific purpose which generally Include the conduct of illegal activity and control over a particular territory, facility of type of enterprise
Juvenile Gangs
Commits delinquent acts in a group
Co-offending
Refers to a small group that shares intimate knowledge and confidence
Cliques
Loosely organized group who shares interest and activities
Crowd
▪︎ This is also known as domestic abuse or intimate partner violence;
▪︎ It refers to a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner
Domestic Violence
EARLY SOCIAL LEGAL HISTORY ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
- Hammurabic Code
- Mosaic Code
- Roman Law
- Early Christianity
- Puritanism
The oldest written law is a collection of ______ rules which the ancient King Hammurabi used to govern Babylon during the years 1792 to 1750 BCE. It applies the Lex Talionis principle.
282 rules
▪︎ It is the ancient code of laws that, according to the Old Testament, were given by God to Moses.
▪︎ It consists of nomadic people and laws of an agricultural nation, laws reflecting a simple ritual and laws portraying an elaborate ceremonial; laws denouncing what other laws commend, laws recognizing a primitive political organization, and laws regulating the elaborate structure incident to a monarchy, and finally, laws reflecting a low moral standard, with others of the loftiest ethical tone.
Mosaic Code
According to this, the man was, is the “pater familias” or “father of the family the unquestioned head of his household. The power given to the men over their wives and children was supreme and absolute.
Roman Law
In 15th Century, the Catholic Church established its “Rules of Marriage” which proclaimed a husband was a judge over his wife and recommend beating her as an accepted form of discipline that would benefit her soul
Early Christianity
▪︎ The puritans are early colonists who settled in North America in the 17th century, had fied Europe in search of religious freedom, but they ended up basing much of the colonial legal system upon England.
▪︎ They are characterized by tight social order, rooted in Christian religious beliefs, to keep them safe and secure
Puritanism
