Juvenille Delinquency

Statement Of Problem In today's society, the problem of juvenile delinquency is running more rampant than ever before. Also, the degrees to which it occurs are far more serious than they were, even ten years ago. The problem used to be over-simplified and chalked up to "kids will be kids", but today's "kids" are contributing to much more serious crimes than they used to. One statistic states that youths under the age of 18 years accounted …

…in general is caused by biological traits that are triggered by undesirable social conditions, proving that without one, or the other, the tendency for immoral behaviour would not exist. REFERENCES 1. Henggeler, Scott W. (1989). Delinquency In Adolescence. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications, Incorporated. 2. Stumphauzer, PhD, Jerome S. Paper Hard Disk Sociology Survey Hard Disk Mississippi Burning Har (1986). Helping Delinquents Change. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Incorporated. 3. Wormser, Richard. (1994). Juveniles In Trouble. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.