Juvenile Delinquency....caused by parents or juveniles themselves???

One of the most important issues in crime today is Juvenile Delinquency. There has been a national fear of delinquency since the 1980's.Juvenile Delinquency has existed for centuries. It is too often the case that people see it as something "new." Juvenile delinquency is a problem that has to be dealt with by society. Over the years, countless efforts have been made to find a comprehensive explanation for delinquency.

The results of these efforts have offered possible reasons as being both biological and social. It is still debatable as to what forces have the greatest influence on youth crime, but it is undoubted that several factors clearly make an impact. The direct relationships a child has with concrete social elements, like his family and friends, are likely to give some intimation of his involvement in crime. However, it must be noted that there are more abstract contexts for socialization that also exist as potential explanations for a child’s behavior. The most prominent of these less specific forces are the media, community, and religion. It has been argued extensively that these three elements represent a major source of delinquency.

Everyone has at one time or another heard accusations against television, for instance, and how it has such degenerating capabilities in relation to young minds. Equally common are the various public proclamations about the lack of brotherhood among citizens of this country. These complaints are nothing new to our society; before television was vilified, it was radio, and before radio it was comic books. In short, these problems merely exist as different manifestations of an age-old concern.

From my point of views, everything that is mentioned plays a great expects this problem. But the most priority goes to the parents and the juveniles themselves. But who is responsible for this Juvenile Delinquency?? The parents or the kids themselves?? We can't just blame on only one person. Both the parents and kids play a strong part in this together. For now, majority blame goes to the parents. Since they are the mature person in this picture, they have to play a bigger part in this issue.

Parents tend to bring the children up in a good way...according to them the perfect way. But is that really the perfect way?? We can come across some parents being like friends towards to their children. By giving them the freedom and the understanding they need in life. This is good in a way but not always. This can cause parental negligence. On the other hand, there is some where they will be very strict and uptight. Which suffocates the children and provokes them in a way to retaliate. This is also a way of parental negligence. So which is the right and better way to bring the kids up???

Parents have to balance their upbringing evenly with both leniency and strictness. Parents have to be a friend where the kids can feel at ease to approach them with whatever problems or feelings they are in doubt. Parents have to learn to give the kids space to breathe and not dictate their every move. Learn to respect their feelings also. There are also some issues the living environment is not suitable for a child's upbringing. Families where either parent are not around as in they might b divorced or widowed. Or even where there is always fights between the spouses. Unsuitable living environment is also one reason leading to juvenile delinquency.

All this attributes to parental negligence. If a living environment is not suitable or the parents are not approachable, the children will look for alternate approach. We have come across people shoplifting due to avenge their anger or for just the mere thrill. This is the same reason why a child turns to shoplifting, grafitti and other offences.Parents do fail to understand that their behavior can be also being the cause. For the children to be misled into wrong paths and get acquainted with the wrong companies in life.

This misled children, tends to get attracted to friends who can be a wrong choice in life. We might have come across cases, where these kids get acquainted with other kids from the secret societies or other forms of illegal groups. This is where they get easily accepted and get misled easily. According these juveniles, these peers give them the necessary attention and concern and understanding that their parents failed to do so. This is also the partial cause of juvenile delinquencies. Not only the parents are to be fully blamed for this cause but the children also share the blame. If the living environment is not suitable, these kids fail to approach the parents and tell them the proper needs or they failed to approach the right procedures, to re-arrange things. They easily allow themselves to be lured into wrong companies.

This juveniles fails to see that instead of seeking internal help, they seek externally and accept things we are not in the first place is right. These kids feel so vulnerable that even the wrong things tend to look the right ones in that moment. The kinds of attention they get from this peers make them feel so wanted and involved that they feel more at home with this people than they feel at home. So when these peers ask them to do anything, they feel obliged and tends to do what ever was told to do so. These people take these kids naive ness for their advantage. Where this kids fail to see whether they are being used for the wrong purpose or not. This leads to shoplifting, extortions, gangsterism, stealing, cheating and some other major offences.

When the parents gets to find out about such problems, they forget to stop to think if it is only the kids fault or is there any other factors they have to look into. The moment the parents find out about this, they blame and use harsh matters to react towards the juveniles. This also makes the issue even uglier to handle. These juveniles tends to take this has that the parents do not love them anymore. Actually, theses juveniles also fails to see if they were also wrong. At times, we can come across juveniles who make such mistakes not younger than 18yrs old. Which is a legal age for certain countries? They tend to fail to use their given maturity thru educations to think if they are doing the wrong thing or if the parents are just being harsh with them.

When we want to point fingers in who to blame….there is no end to it. Juveniles will blame the parents and the parents will blame the juveniles. Or even parents blaming the media and other aspects for the cause of juvenile delinquencies. Matter of fact, everyone plays an important role in building a proper family. Everyone should stop and think if what they are doing is right or wrong or will it be the cause for some other major issues. When everyone works hand in hand, there will not be anyone blamed the reason for such issues.