Causes of Juvenile Delinquency. A Literature Review

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Law - Criminal process Criminology Law Enforcement grade: A Northcentral University course: Scholarly Literature Review language: English abstract: The causes of juvenile delinquency have being a field that many scholars have built their research on. In addition causes leading to violent behavior especially among the youth has being widely studied aiming at intervention at an early stage (Schreck Fisher & Miller 2012). In the vast field of psychology human violence is a key element consequently; psychologists evaluate how the environment interacts with the individual to result in a violent act (Jessica Osmond & Ballick 2014). Juvenile violence is a key issue in the corridors of justice on a global scale. However juvenile violence focuses on the punishment rather than development of mechanisms that may be instrumental in prevention and intervention at early stage in life (Winterdyk 2014). There are two outstanding themes in this literature review. First theme is that various life events and immediate environment including home school and neighborhood is essential in shaping ones trajectory as ones transit from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. The second theme is that identifying such life events is the determining factor of delinquent behavior. In summary the pathway to crime for a child is greatly dependent on the social bonds that exist in the society.