Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Treatment

Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Treatment

Description of Delinquency prevention

Delinquency prevention is aimed at preventing children and young people engage in antisocial or criminal behavior, while the prediction seeks to know the risk situations that call for preventive intervention. Proper preventive policy need to be truly effective in knowing the problem, it is necessary to know the causes or risk factors that influence or contribute to juvenile offenders. The reasons or motivations of juvenile delinquency are manifold (Shader, 2007).

The family plays an important role in the socialization process of young people, heavily influencing their future behavior. Close ties between parents and children, good communication, supervision and control of children, or an appropriate discipline, reduce the risk of juvenile delinquency. Conversely, lack of supervision, changes in family structure, abuse, or alternately harsh discipline, lack of communication or lack of affection, increase the risk of criminal behavior among young people (Windle, 2009).

The school also plays an important role in proper education and socialization of young people, operating as an inhibitor of the crime, and academic success and good attitudes toward reducing crime, although in some cases school failure or early dropout, works in reverse as a facilitator of crime, still it is an effective tool for stabilizing the behavior of children and youth.

The group of friends (peers) is important in the psychosocial development of teenagers, sense of belonging, emotional support and standards of behavior, reported as a major influence on juvenile delinquency. The association with delinquent friends is the best predictor of crime in current research (Shelden, 2009). The purpose of this study is to expand the boundaries of our knowledge by exploring some relevant facts and figures relating to the issue of Juvenile Delinquency and its prevention and treatment. Juvenile Delinquency refers to crimes carried out by young people or minors. A young criminal is one that recurs and repeatedly commits crimes. Most legal systems consider specific procedures for dealing with this problem, such as juvenile detention centers. In the next section, the author will present comparing and contrasting factors between juvenile delinquency prevention and treatment.

Fundamental principles of prevention

The fundamental principle of prevention is based on the ideology of crafting an effective prevention effort to ensure the harmonious development of young people. Apart from this, another important principle is to regulate the offensive behavior of youth. Thus, we can mention a few programs to prevent crime whose main objective is to prevent or encourage certain behaviors and discourage risk factors for criminal behavior, thus trying to prevent behavioral disorders or antisocial behavior in children and prevent cognitive deficits.

Analysis of the effectiveness of the prevention

The effectiveness of prevention programs depends largely on whether the program has succeeded or failed to reduce the delinquency. The programs implemented in school also depends on the conditions under which they are implemented. According to Broum (2009) the family focused prevention programs has been most effective in reducing the rate of delinquency among youth. Parents has a major role to play in the development of ...