Talk:Juvenile delinquency

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Contents 1 Disambiguation of the term juvenile 2 age of juvenile delinquency 3 Kids Next Door??? 4 Weasel words 5 Vandalism on this page? 6 Clarification 7 Article cleanup

[edit] Disambiguation of the term juvenile

I am working on the disambiguation list for the term juvenile. I hesitate to make any change to this page relating to the term because I don't believe that we have a precise definition. My choices on the disambiguation page for juvenile are child or adolescent. It appears to me that a link to one or the other of these is probably not precise. I believe that the actual definition should include both. I think that we probably need a topic that actually provides a legal definition for the term juvenile. IANAL, so, I'm not inclined to tackle the topic.

Crackerbelly

[-Ed] Both of these scholars have good theories as to why crime is committed and the factors that lead to the crime. Where they differ is one beliefs that crime is related to becoming poor, and the other believes that crime is due to lack of self control which is learned at the home. This puts us in a conundrum! At what point to we believe these theories. If abuse, neglect, alienation from school, race, and class all play a role in what influences juvenile delinquency then where do people, parents, social institutions begin to alleviate the ever growing problem of deviance in our society. I feel as though we need to start form the very top and make sure that neglect, abuse, and race are not filtering throuch our public institutions that we have set up for children shuch as schools, clubs, sports. What is overwhelming to think about is the fact that we will never be able to stop physical abuse in the home if it is not known about. I believe that we need to advocate that it is okay to discuss with teachers and counelors that something might be going on in the home. It is only at this level that we will be able to get to the bottom of the problem and stop it before it starts.

This is a great start to an important issue. I would like to raise the topic of color. Is there evidence to show that color is a factor in delinquency? Why is our system flooded with minorities? Are we, as a society, saying that minorites are the only juvenile delinquents?

Cvangelbeauty

[edit] age of juvenile delinquency

I think there should be a reference in here from which age on juveniles can receive a penalty for committing a crime. --85.74.164.156 20:24, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kids Next Door???

Is it really neccesary to have that here?

There's waaay to many juvenile delinquents in fiction to be named anyway (it's a common theme) cobshighlander writes. but its quite good that we identify them and find the rememdies to the problem. currently i am trying to find out if the the level of moral development of juvenile delinquents are the same, higher or lower than the that of normal children and i hope this will help my country to tackle the problem well. to be precise the kids next door might be just troublesome one time or the other but here we are trying to identify the actual crime committing ones like a child that has even killed, fought someone and bitten off her breast, cashed out his or her masters wealth and others. these are the ones we are talking of and not the ones who playfully cross your path with a bicycle when you are driving home etc. lets be conscious of the way we label the kids next door for they might be the next rulers of the our country etc.

[edit] Weasel words

I take exception to these claims:

• Millions of tax dollars are expended each year to cover the costs of law enforcement, legal proceedings, victim assistance, and offender incarceration. A number of studies have found that prevention costs much less than the effects of delinquency itself.

The facts are that less that 1 percent of all criminal cases involve juveniles.

• Many states have caught hold of this vision and have allocated funds for programs that serve an at-risk youth.

That is not why there are some programs for at-risk youth. The programs exist because of the influence of a very few dedicated persons. The public, which means the government as well, generally does not give a damn because juvenile delinquency is not a highly visible problem. Since I am not a so-called expert, my first-hand knowledge cannot be used directly in an article. However, I know how the system works. I know how perverts are attracted for employment in the juvenile corrections industry, and how they get away with rape and child abuse. They do this because nobody cares. Persons who are called juvenile delinquents are this country's throwaway children. They are disposed of in juvenile detention and correctional institutions as meat for the insatiable appetites of those who work in the industry.

There are juvenile delinquents because children cannot chose their parents, the places they will live, the schools they attend, the persons they encounter, nor the things they learn. Interested persons should read my book. http://www.LymanSchool.com is a link to read about it and possibly purchase a copy. -- LymanSchool 03:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism on this page?

"Juvenile Delinquency may refer ... inside influences that are believed to affect the way a child acts both POTATOES, some of which are as follows:

   * Abandonment
   * Social institutions
   * Peer pressure

volunteering in Fire Corps makes it impossible to get in trouble.

The page appears this way when first accessed - however, the added ridiculous parts (emboldened by me) are missing or altered to sensible text when I come to edit the page. What strange vandalism is at work here? Thurble 13:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

There appears to be another act of vandalism on this page. It reads now, at 19:22 est 7 December 2007: "poop-- can be driven to juvenile deliquency if neglected, abandoned or abused" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.175.67.50 (talk) 00:27, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification

The act created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Justice Department to administer grants for juvenile crime-combatting programs (currently about only 900,00 dollars a year), gather national statistics on juvenile crime, fund research on youth crime and administer four anticonfinement mandates regarding juvenile custody. Can someone fix the bold part of the phrase, as it makes no logical sense. Is it 900,000 or 90,000? Bladesofhalo 02:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article cleanup

I just cleaned up the article's syntax, added some information, and added references. Cheers ---LymanSchool 23:12, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

This user, 216.124.244.139 decided to remove a reference. I put it back! Gawd, an article can't remain intact for a hour before somebody trashes it. --LymanSchool 00:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

made a few citation and grammatical corrections also, please feel free to change anything i may have incorrectly changed or that i missed. Bladesofhalo 19:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

DelinquencyPrevention.Org is a website which sells books and makes money off of Google Adsense and the like. Why is it listed as a reference and external link? 22 November 2007 It also deals with status offenses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.113.3.66 (talk) 16:54, 20 December 2007 (UTC)