Chapter 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

Juvenile Delinquency Juvenile Delinquency handles with the youth below twenty-one years of age who break or fail to do the required law. Children between 15 and 18 of age shall correspondingly be free from criminal liabilities to be put through an intervention program. This is systematically followed unless he or she has acted with discernment, in this case, such child should be dealt with the proper proceedings in accordance with this act. (R.A.9344, 2005) Types Of Juvenile Delinquency According to Rohit Bura, Delinquency exhibits a variety of styles of conduct or forms of behaviour. Each of the patterns has its own social context, the causes that are alleged to bring it about, and the forms of prevention or treatment most often suggested as appropriate for the pattern in question.
(a) Individual delinquency:
This refers to delinquency in which only one individual is involved in committing a delinquent act and its cause is located within the individual delinquent. Most of the explanations of this delinquent behaviour come from psychiatrists.
Their argument is that delinquency is caused by psychological problems stemming primarily from defective/faulty/pathological family interaction patterns.
Researches of Healy and Bronner, Albert Bandura and Richard Walters, Edwin Powers and Helen Witmer, and Henry Meyer and Edgar Borgatta are based on this approach. Healy and Bronner (1936) compared delinquent youths