Talk:Juvenile delinquency

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Possible vandalism and fix
In the first section the word "jucie" was in the text. This appears to be vandalism so I removed it, but it may be real. Could someone please take a second look at this edit? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.103.35.72 (talk) 17:26, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

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

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)

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.

Juvenile Sexual Offenders
It is necessary to add information pertaining to juvenile sexual offenders as they fall within the category of delinquency. The OJJDP provides data on the prevalence of sexual offense occurrences in juveniles. It is also important to note the evidenced based interventions that are widely used to treat this group. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.253.50.16 (talk) 15:23, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Why is delinquencyprevention.org being restored to the external links when he has been banned several times for spamming Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.155.40 (talk) 10:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

There are references in the main article - shouldn't they be at the bottom in footnotes? It's just a query, I'm not sure.

Could someone have a look at the Juvenile Sex Offenses section at the beginning of the article? The English is *terrible*. I'd try and correct it myself but I wouldn't know where to begin. Why is that section at the beginning anyway? iPhil (talk) 22:18, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposal to Edit the 'Juvenile Delinquency in the US' Page
I propose to make edits to the current page titled ‘Juvenile Delinquency in the US’. Seeing as how important this issue is in America, I think the page is lacking a lot of important information. I plan to add the following sections: introduction to juvenile delinquency, recent statistics, the cradle to prison pipeline, and the juvenile justice debate, and preventing juvenile delinquency. It is very important to educate the Wikipedia world on this topic, and to show how much room there is for improvement. Showing the room for improvement, this page might have the ability of enacting social change and changing future generations of children for the better.MariaNunez (talk) 04:14, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Editing
Hi, I'm a psychology student and will be editing the juvenile delinquency page. I will be adding the most recent information concerning juvenile delinquency theories and looking at it from a developmental perspective. Acanizar (talk) 01:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi once again, I have finished editing the the juvenile delinquency page. I did not edit the section on Juvenile sex crimes, and for that reason placed it at the end of the article with a note that the references and statistics it quotes should be checked by the wikipedia community. Acanizar (talk) 08:06, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

contradiction in terms
Juvenile delinquent is a contradiction in terms. Delinquent means failing in duty. But duty is an adult virtue - indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be, a juvenile delinquent. &#x262D;  тдлжЅТЦФФ 17:11, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Just because a character in Starship Troopers asserted that doesn't make it true. "Delinquent" doesn't just mean "failing in duty" - etymologically it means "to fail; be wanting, fall short; do wrong, transgress, offend", and in general use it just means "tending to commit crime, particularly minor crime".  And "duty" isn't inherently an exclusively "adult" virtue - many (possibly most) cultures and jurisdictions impose legal and/or moral obligations on children before they reach the age of majority. Iapetus (talk) 11:59, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Globalize?
Nearly all data on this page are from a U.S. perspective. Should a "Juvenile delinquency in the U.S." article be created, or can this article be globalized? I edited just one fact in the "sex crimes" section, but that is really just a tiny beginning. Cheers. Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 20:36, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Editorial Tag
I put an editorial tag in. I am a wiki noob, and just googled how to do that. I have no idea how to fix the actual text so it doesn't read this way.

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There is also a significant skew in the racial statistics for juvenile offenders. When considering these statistics, which state that black and Hispanic teens are more likely to commit juvenile offenses it is important to keep the following in mind,from poverty to low parental monitoring, harsh parenting, and association with gangs, all of which are in turn associated with juvenile offending. The majority of adolescents who live in poverty are young black men, '''and for me it's sad to even have to say that it's not fair to anyone but why we have to put black men in this category. We as adults or our own community need to be more involved with our youths keep them off the streets offer more after school programs, the streets is were it all starts they see their fathers or older brothers making quick money so they want to follow but it only gets you in prison or dead. I see this first hand in my city. The most recent was an RTA driver got shot by some teenagers they quoted you have to kill a polar bear to be a full gang member, well the driver was a white man and he was shot three times and lived'''. hapter=Developmental criminology and risk-focused prevention |editor1-first=M. |editor1-last=Maguire |editor2-last=et al. |title=The Oxford Handbook of Criminology |edition=3rd |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0199256098 }} Also, minorities who offend, even as adolescents, are more likely to be arrested and punished more harshly by the law if caught.[13] Particularly concerning a non-violent crime and when compared to white adolescents. While poor minorities are more likely to commit violent crimes, one third of affluent teens report committing violent crimes.[2]

Age of First Arrest
Curious...the article makes a claim that the age of first arrest for juvenile delinquents is declining and quotes a textbook by Steinberg. I don't have access to the Steinberg text to verify the claim. It may very well be true, but I had difficulty finding other references to it. I wonder, too if it may be out-of-date. It looks like juvenile arrests peaked in the early to mid 1990s and have declined significantly since then (I added a note about that to the article). It's still possible that we may be seeing earlier first arrest age due to things like zero-tolerance policies (and added a ref about that I found)...but could someone point me to some clearer data on this from a reliable source? Otherwise the claim may be poorly sourced. StoneProphet11 (talk) 03:19, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

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Editing Assignment
Hello, I am a student taking abnormal psychology and I will be editing the Prevention section of the juvenile delinquency page. I am adding information about the Scared Straight Intervention Treatment and discussing the contradictory effects of this treatment. Bpwell (talk) 20:21, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

sourcing comments
This article has information that I believe needs further elaboration in order to make it sound unbiased. I plan to add additional information pertaining to juvenile delinquency/race in Canada as well as edit grammatical errors. http://www.jstor.org.uproxy.library.dc-uoit.ca/stable/pdf/2966235.pdf?acceptTC=true July.love30 (talk) 16:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Esbensen, F., Freng, A., Peterson, D., Taylor, T. (2010). Youth violence: sex and race differences in	offending, victimization and gang membership. Philidelphia: Temple University Press

Office of juvenile justice. (2014). Statistical briefing book: law enforcement and juvenile crime. Retrieved	March 2nd, 2015, from	http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/JAR.asp

Owusu-Bempah, A. (2013). Race, crime and criminal justice in Canada. Retrieved March 2nd, 2015 from academia.edu July.love30 (talk) 22:05, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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Interested in Editing
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Proposed Edits
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- Add information in school to prison pipeline and the educational impacts

- Reorganize the article for a clearer line of thought

- Add information on delinquency centers and link this article to other relevant ones.

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Edits Made to Risk Factors Section
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Schools and prisons
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Juvenile jail
Juvenile deliquent has a separate ambiance.They treated different as compared to other criminals.They have separate jail named as BORSTAL JAIL. 119.155.60.109 (talk) 15:26, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: EDT 251 - Research Skills and Strategies
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Proposed merge of Young offender into Juvenile delinquency
wide overlap between act and actor. fgnievinski (talk) 03:30, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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