Juvenile Delinquency 

 

Juvenile delinquency differs from other Crimes? Because It Committed by teenage group. At this teenage, girls and boys are not mature enough to understand the world .In such crime cases, surrounding always play an important role. It includes parents, friends and teachers and these people are responsible together with the teenagers who commit crime. Due to this reason courts do not punish the teenagers like they punish the adults when they commit a crime. There are separate juvenile courts and the purpose of juvenile punishment is to help the teenager understand the importance of staying away from crimes. There are various theories of juvenile delinquency and various researchers have reported different reasons of delinquency. Most of the delinquent teenagers belong from low social, economic or psychological background. 

What are the causes that lead to Juvenile crime? The causes include family, personal reasons of persons, Peer groups influence and most impact-full the society he or she belong from. Family has influence on teenagers to commit crime because in country like India most of the families faces the problems like economic problems, psychological problems, social problems, moral problems and the parenting style in families also one of the issues. Sometimes personal reasons may lead to teenager behavior. The adolescent faces hardship in life due to some psychological or physical problems that teenager going through. The view of society toward the teenager behavior may effect negatively and can lead to commit crime even if he belongs to good or reputed family.  Those adolescents who are suffering from some psychological or physical problem want to take revenge from society, friends, family or peer group.

We as a society or family can avoid these type of crime by taking the responsibility of fight against the causes. Proper quality education of each individual in the society is the vital step in reducing such type of crimes. Education help to build up the moral values and the understanding the good and bad in the surroundings as well as social conditions of each family and society. Communication gap should be filled between teens and their parents, so that the problem that faced by teens will be discussed and not ignored which help to improve the mentality of the juveniles. Incorporating these things the innocence of the juvenile will sustain or the spectra will continue to dig vicious holes in our surroundings….!