Juvenile Delinquents In The Criminal Justice System

What are juvenile delinquents? Juvenile delinquents are basically teen criminals. In other words, they are young kids that commit crimes that defers from the normal criminal justice system. These young delinquents have different punishments then adults do in the criminal justice system. the criminal justice system is different from children than adults mainly to prevent juveniles from committing more of deviance and to give them a chance to turn their life around. However, this is not done for adults because the is a high chance they cannot change their life around, some might say it is too late. There are many different court differences such as juveniles have offenses rather than crimes. As well as detention, rather than incarceration.

A child growing up in poverty faces more harsh conditions than those not living in poverty. They might have to fight and steal for food, clothing or other needs that they do not have. This can lead to juveniles committing acts of deviance. For example children food from a strore or gas station. That child commited theft for the reason that the didn’t have the nessasary needs to properly eat. Another reason a child’s family can lead to juvenile delinquency is mental illness. With this the child could mentally not be capable of understanding what they have done wrong. Children can suffer from so many mental disorders such as mood disorders, aniexty disorders, and attention seeking disorders. All of those disorders lead to deliquents on there own. For example, a child seeking attention might have to commit a crime just to get there parents to listen or focus on them. Or another kid might not thing that its wrong to hit another child. Overall this can lead to child criminals and these mental illnesses can be passed down from heredity or just happen to be received by the child. The last reason of how family can lead to teenage criminals is parenting style. Parenting is the foundation of building up a child. If a child does not

Peer groups is something every child has to go through. It is all about what a child takes from others, some taking it harder than other. Some examples of peer groups that can influence children into delinquency is cliques and rejection. Cliques are so important to children. Every child wants to be accepted or liked by others they admire however it can be very dangerous for the child. Most times children have to do something to prove that they are in fact one of the others. This happens majority of times in gangs. They might have children steal or act upon violence to become part of their group. In doing so that group and child are acting upon deviance. Rejection can also move a child into a criminal. Once again, every child wants to be accepted and those who aren’t could take the rejection harsh. Children who are rejected might want revenge. Revenge usually is violent or illegal and shaped children into criminals. The effect other than revenge a child might result in is uselessness. The child might think that they aren’t good for anything and lose all hope and start to just act out. Overall children can be influenced into a juvenile delinquent by peer groups such as cliques and