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Impact Of Child Abuse On Juvenile Delinquency

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Jarvis Vang

Child Abuse and its Impact on Juvenile Delinquency

Criminology 120 Juvenile Delinquency

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00AM

Judith L. Tucker, M.S.

October 15, 2014

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse (Alice Miller, 1991). Juvenile delinquents are rapidly growing in numbers in today’s society and the juvenile justice system (JJS) is doing its best in the fight against lawmakers, politics and society to better comprehend this out break. One principle that …show more content…

There are many reasons to consider but focusing on the cause, the effect, and the extent of child abuse, will aid us in understanding its involvement with juvenile delinquency.
When researchers look into the cause of child abuse there is not a single source to this wide spread issue. According to our book Juvenile delinquency: theory, practice, and law of all the factors associated with this topic there are three topics that seem to touch ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic boundaries. First is that parents who themselves suffered abuse end to abuse their own children. Second, the presence of an unrelated adult increases the risk of abuse. Finally an isolated or alienated family tends to become abusive in which a pattern of violence will be passed on from generation to …show more content…

That abusing children have long-term effects and consequences towards delinquent behavior. Nearly all States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands provide civil definitions of child abuse in statute. The seriousness of this crime has a ripple effect on the children that it is able to inflect pain towards. There is a clear vision to why this topic is widely recognized because it is the core and link to delinquents and sometimes even carrying over to their adulthood. States recognize the different types of abuse in their definitions, including physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse (C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect, 2013). Imagine being in any of those situations and having to face the reality that is in front of you. These types of abuse towards the youth are unacceptable because the statistic shows only the amount of people who have step forward to report them. About more than half of these records are

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