Juvenile crimes as a social problem

A Modeling Perspective of Juvenile Crimes

Youth gang activity is on the rise again since declining from its peak in the early 2000s. We focus on contagion of youth gang membership and delinquency among adolescents who are at risk to peer pressure by creating an epidemiological model with differential equations. The model seeks to examine dynamics of the system through stability analysis. A tipping point that spreads youth gang activity...

Juvenile Victims of Property Crimes

Part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Crimes Against Children Series, this Bulletin describes juveniles’ risks for property victimization and the nature of such crimes. Unfortunately, property crimes against juveniles are seldom reported to the police. In fact, a larceny or theft perpetrated against a juvenile is three times less likely to be reported than one for ...

Contextualizing Bias Crimes: A Social & Theoretical Perspective

Business Ethics as a Prevention Paradigm of Banking Crimes

Background: One of the prominent features of ethics is to prevent conflict and tension in society and between individuals, and when ethics exist in society, some abnormalities in society will be eliminated. Ethics are also important in business relationships and will promote business prosperity, trust, honesty and goodwill, and economic transactions will result in a healthy and reassuring envir...

[Alcoholism as a psychiatric and social problem].