Athough conventional wisdom suggests that organized sport deters delinquency by building character, structuring adolescents' time, and providing incentives for socially approved behavior, the empirical evidence to date has been mixed. Based on a sample of approximately 600 Western New York adolescents, the present study examined how self-reported jock identity, school athlete status, and freque...

According to the white paper on youth by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in the Republic of Korea, male adolescents who committed a crime accounted for 82.8% of the total, four times as high as the rate of their female counterparts who made up 17.2% of the total (MOGEF, 2012). Due to such predominance in the rate of male juvenile delinquents over that of female juvenile delinquents, ...

According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from 1991 to 2000, arrests of girls increased more (or decreased less) than arrests of boys for most types of offenses. By 2004, girls accounted for 30 percent of all juvenile arrests. However, questions remain about whether these trends reflect an actual increase in girls’ delinquency or changes in societal responses to girls’ behavio...

This paper reviews the interrelationship among family structure, and child delinquency. This paper attempts to explain the effect of family structure on juvenile delinquency. The least amount of communication and structure of the family may be some of the reasons which provides, the more likely make the child will engage in delinquent activities. Patterns of family behavior, decision making and...

According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from 1991 to 2000, arrests of girls increased more (or decreased less) than arrests of boys for most types of offenses. By 2004, girls accounted for 30 percent of all juvenile arrests. However, questions remain about whether these trends reflect an actual increase in girls’ delinquency or changes in societal responses to girls’ behavio...

This study aims to provide answers for the two primary questions, namely: first, what is role of legal psychology public prosecutors in handling juvenile delinquency? Second, are obstacles using delinquency cases? The research method normative juridical which collaborated with approache empirical method. results this are: Public Prosecutors Juvenile Delinquency cases understand background, fact...

This study aims to analyze juvenile delinquency at MAN 2 Padangsidimpuan. It consists of the types delinquency, causal factors, and efforts counseling teacher in alleviating delinquency. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. subjects were students, teachers, subject homeroom parents students taken using snowball sampling technique. Research instruments observation, interviews, do...