He has been expelled from three school since he began his education and is currently attending junior high school after last attending a small charter school in his community. The shoplifting incident also caused his mother to ask his father to take him back into his home, he has lived with mostly his mother with infrequent visitation from his father, except for a year period where he lived with his father and stepmother and their other children, which ended at age 12 when he tried to vocalize feelings of concern about puberty to his stepmother and she perceived the conversation as deviant and asked that he be returned to his mother.
Justin's anti-social behavior began at birth but has had periods of extremes, beginning with near constant conflict with his mother over mundane requests as well as other general rejections of authority, including an incident of extreme foul language focused at a school bus driver when he was two years old and in transit to speech therapy. Though the child usually refused to speak he still had the ability to call a bus driver an extremely foul name, language he learned from his father and the music his father listens to. His behaviors are frequently extreme at home but have also occurred in public and seem to exacerbate with age and exposure to other anti-social peers and adults, a consistent similarity with other anti-social children and adults. (Loeber, Farrington, Stouthamer-Loeber & Van Kammen, 1998, p. 17)
Interventions have included behavioral interventions, such as school sanctions, expulsion, punishment of removal of toys and electronic equipment by mother and father as well as the removal of privileges. Physical punishment has been very limited as his rejection of authority becomes excessively worse with the intervention of physical punishment and/or severe admonishment by adults. Any open intervention by adults, even in the most mundane and calm...
Families, Delinquency & Crime The fundamental changes occurring to families in the 21st century can be classified into two different categories, depending on the internal or the external perspective that is used in the analysis. The external perspective proposes an analysis of the sociodemographic changes that have occurred to families under the impact of the external factors of the 21st century. The sociodemographic changes are characterized both by the numbers, by
Less dramatically, in my own personal experience I have known people who have engaged in minor acts of delinquent behavior, for no apparent reason, and I have (successfully, I believe) had to deal with peer pressure to engage in antisocial acts. In this course I would like to learn more about the juvenile justice, theories of why young people commit crimes, and how someone's family influences the likelihood that they
In fact, this theory does well to explain the prevalence of modern youth gangs. First, gang members oftentimes engage in behavior that is absolutely contrary to the norms and rules that they have learned at home, but, because of a lack of belief in society, at large, they allow themselves to discard those norms. Therefore, delinquents are "free to engage in virtually any opportunity for deviant behavior that presents itself."
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