Is The Change In Today’S Family Values And The Conditions Children Are Raised In To Blame For Youth Delinquency? Is The Juvenile Justice System Geared To Handle This?
...and the conditions children are raised in to blame for youth delinquency? Is the juvenile justice system geared to handle this?
Prepared by: Leyton Burk
Kids are highly influenced by their surroundings which include families, communities, schools, peers, high profile figures such as politicians, celebrities, and the media. I believe that a closer look at family values and the way kids are raised needs to be taken.
Over and over I hear people say; what is wrong with today’s youth? Or another question heard is how do they think? I feel the people asking these questions should stop and think where these kids learned it from. A lot of people should take a look at what kind of a role model they have been themselves.
Cesare Lombroso, an Italian Physician and also known as the father of modern criminology and a originator of the positivist view of criminality, said that humans are shaped by their society and our products their environment and cultural influences, and believed that delinquent behavior is a result of biological makeup and life experiences(Hess and Drowns, 2004). I personally do not believe criminals are born, but I do feel that life experiences, environment, and cultural influences do contribute to delinquency.
We need to look at what parts of society are educating and influencing our youth.
I would like to start with one of the biggest sources of influence and education on morals, values, “The family and life at home”.
The relationship between youth delinquency and family functioning has been well documented in the literature. Negative parent-child relationships in general and poor parenting skills in particular have been identified as significant risk factors for criminal behavior in youth (SEM, 1997).
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