Psychological Theory, Research, and Juvenile Delinquency

Theory and Research: The Social Context of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

• Introduction • The Political and Economic Context of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice • The Family and Delinquency • Schools and Delinquency • The Community and Delinquency • Peer associations and Delinquency • The Social Context of Delinquency Theories • The Social Context of Juvenile Justice • The Infl uence of the Political Economy on the Practice of Juvenile Justice  ChaPTEr OU...

Family Background and Environment, Psychological Distress, and Juvenile Delinquency

The relationship between youth offending and family background is still unclear in the literature. This study explored the role of family factors and psychological distress in relation to delinquency and youth offending to try and explicate the relative importance of family structure, family relations, and psychological distress. The study used the Brief Symptom Inventory, the Family Environmen...

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Juvenile Delinquency

potentiality the mature pattern of social behaviour depends upon the pattern of behaviour established in early family relationships. Normal behaviour presupposes that the child in the home should have met firstly with stable and secure affection. This is a biological need without which he cannot develop normally. In its absence, relative or, rarely, complete, he will be liable to a wide variety...

Juvenile Delinquency

A chapter on the mental growth of the child, precedes an attempt to correlate aetiological factors with the stages of child development and so to reveal the psychological basis determining the origins of susceptibility to delinquency. Here the general views of Aichhorn. Healy and Bronner, Kate Friedlander, Bowlby, Stott, Glucks and Bovet are briefly represented and examined. Most of the book co...