Juvenile Deliquency Risk Factors

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Shader, M. (n.d.). Risk factors for delinquency: An overview - office of justice programs. US Department of Justice. Retrieved April 2, 2023, from https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/fr d030127.pdf

The article discusses juvenile delinquency risk factors based on theoretical models that describe relationships between variables and outcomes. One approach to understanding juvenile delinquency involves treating it as a public health issue. According to the article, addressing juvenile delinquency as a public health problem is done in four steps: public health surveillance, risk group identification, risk factor exploration, and program implementation and evaluation.

A deeper understanding of risk factors is crucial in understanding any condition requiring psychological therapy. The article answers the question of whether the risk factors of juvenile delinquency depend on individual or social factors or both or whether juveniles just offend when they find the opportunity. Psychotherapists need to understand risk factors to enable them to treat and advise their clients.

According to the article, juvenile delinquency is caused by several risk factors that work interactively. The article also discusses protective factors, which are factors that mediate or moderate the effects of exposure to the risk factors. Personal level protective factors of juvenile delinquency include sociability, low impulsivity, low irritability, positive moods, and child IQ. The fact that this resource is retrieved from the US Department of Justice’s official website makes it both reliable and credible. The information posted on government websites is always based on formal data, mostly collected by national agencies. The websites are also

The effectiveness of prevention and intervention efforts depends on the ability to identify risk and protective factors and establishing developmental stages during which interventions are appropriate. A program that is effective during childhood may not be effective in adolescence.

updated regularly, which makes them even more reliable.

Cho, M., & Lee, C. H. (2022).

Childhood maltreatment and repeat offending in juvenile delinquents: A propensity score matched-control study. Youth & Society, 54(7), 1178– 1199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X211 001090

This study used administrative data to examine the independent predictive value of childhood maltreatment on repeat delinquency. According to the study, 45%-72% of first-time delinquents from 39 states had new adjudication within three years of being released from correctional facilities. The study also found that repeat offence during adolescence is associated with a higher risk of social isolation, stigmatization, and gang affiliation.

Understanding underlying factors is crucial for understanding child delinquency. As the article asserts, child maltreatment significantly contributes to delinquency and repeat delinquency. Knowing underlying factors is very important for psychologists as it gives them a framework on which they can base their therapy. Understanding Reviewed literature suggested that underlying factors also help in youths who were maltreated as children prevention. When parents have a greater risk of repeat delinquency understand these underlying compared to those without adverse factors, they will avoid childhood experiences. The findings of exposing their children to the study supported this fact. Among the them. Since prevention is study participants, about 33% of firstbetter than intervention, more time delinquent adolescents who were research should be done on maltreated as children had at least three preventive measures. adjudicated offences within five years, compared to 25% of those without a history of maltreatment.

This article was published in Sage Journals, and this makes it a credible source. All articles published on the database are peer-reviewed the data they contain are fact-checked. Since it was published in 2022 and incorporated data from 39 states, its findings are very reliable.

van der Put, C. E., Boekhout van Solinge, N. F., Stams, G. J., Hoeve, M., & Assink, M. (2020). Effects of awareness programs on juvenile

This study, which is published in Sage Journals, analyzes the effectiveness of juvenile awareness programs. The program involves taking juveniles,

Juvenile delinquency prevention is an important area for understanding juvenile delinquency. Knowing

delinquency: A three-level metaanalysis. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 65(1), 68–91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624x2090 9239

either delinquent or at risk of delinquency, to prisons so that they can observe prison life. During the programs, the juveniles are let to see how inmates are terrified, screamed at, and berated. They are also made to listen to the inmates' testimonies. The purpose of the program is to scare juveniles from offending. The study found that the programs provoke rather than prevent delinquency. The study unravelled components of the program that are positively associated with negative effects. The study was conducted through a three-level metaanalysis to determine the juvenile awareness programs' effect on delinquent behaviour, attitude towards punishment, prodelinquent attitudes, and other delinquency risk factors like being hostile, school dropout, and having delinquent friends. The study did not find a significant overall effect, which means that the programs have no positive effect on delinquent behavior and other factors related to delinquency.

effective prevention techniques is important for teachers, parents, and counsellors. This article gives deeper insights into one prevention technique which even though is ineffective, is still being used.

Those who use the 'scare straight' technique ground their decision on deterrence theory.

The theory asserts that when one is exposed to an unpleasant situation, they are more likely to avoid engaging in activities that could lead them to that situation again.

However, this theory does not work for child delinquency as the study (meta-analysis) quoted other studies which found that other earlier studies had established that juveniles who have gone through the programs are more likely to engage in delinquent behavior.