Psychological and Sociological theories
... acts. In reality the juvenile exercise no control over circumstance surrounding the act or acts. When turning to their peers for support all that is there is more pressure to commit the act or acts. The second reason is the largest and most common, Family Life or the lack of. It’s stated that the manner in which juveniles are raised determines how they will be as an adult. So it makes sense to say that if a juvenile was raised poorly, they will be more prone to run into problems such as committing criminal acts. Studies as shown between the 70’s and early 90’s, the number of juveniles living in poverty has grown largely for a number of reasons. This factor alone has caused a noticeable increase in criminal acts committed by juveniles. Many of these juveniles have stated that they have been abused or neglected or grew up in a single parent household. It has be founded that the majority of these juvenile are more likely to be arrested, and are much more likely to commit a violent crime as an adult, than their counterparts who did not suffer such abuse or neglect and are raised in a loving home. Moving onto Psychological, one of the most common psychological problems found juvenile that commit criminal acts is Abuse, which is found in four basic forms emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. Emotional Abuse (known as: Verbal, mental abuse, and psychological maltreatment), includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional or mental disorders. Which include parents/caretakers using extreme and/or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement in a closet or dark room or being tied to a chair for long periods of time or threatening or terrorizing a juvenile...