Essays on Juvenile Delinquency

The story “The Match” written by Colson Whitehead opens with the discovery of a secret grave full of buried, unidentified bodies located on the school of what used to be Nickel Academy, a reform school for troubled juveniles. It is a story where former students...

The School-to-Prison Pipeline further advances low-income families into the cycle of poverty and is detrimental to society and change. The School-to-Prison Pipeline is a concept where children of minorities are being oppressed by the school system and that directly leads to expulsion, which leads to...

Can juveniles learn to commit crimes, specifically shoplifting or theft? Edwin Sutherland’s differential association theory explains crime is learned through social processing. Sutherland’s nine propositions disassemble the process of learning crime through social interactions, and to understand that crime is learned how we, as humans,...

In America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia, distinguished scholar and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northwestern University, Simon I. Singer introduces the reader to Amherst, New York, which is routinely voted as one of the safest cities in the United States....

Discussion of the ways school contributes to or prevents delinquency by focusing on four of the following issues: achievement, dropouts; dress codes: intelligence tests; tracking; alternative schools, and school community relations. Arguments have been made, that outside of the family, school is a primary instrument...

As we all know that juvenile delinquency is causing a big problem in our society, and it is a problem that is getting worse every day. It has to be stopped with different methods. In 2006 boys had more than the seventy percent of all...

Juvenile delinquency is defined as illegal acts committed by youngsters under the age of 18, especially for juveniles who grow up in low-income families and living in urban areas. Low income and juvenile delinquency is a popular theory and has always been linked in studies...

Juvenile delinquency, despite falling overall rates of crime in the United States, remains a serious problem in this country. Around 2.5 million juveniles are arrested every year for various crimes in America, of which around 100,000 are violent crimes; however, it is estimated that this...