Juvenile Justice: Understanding the Causes and Solutions

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Table of Contents
What is crime?............................................................................................................................2
Reasons for Crime by Youth......................................................................................................3
Financial Conditions...............................................................................................................3
Neediness and Inequality........................................................................................................3
Joblessness..............................................................................................................................3
Political Conditions................................................................................................................4
Social Factors.............................................................................................................................4
Family Structures....................................................................................................................5
Biological theory........................................................................................................................7
Sociological theory.....................................................................................................................7
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................10
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What is crime?
Crime can be defined as a person breaking the law by doing illegal and immoral act.
Government sets the law in every country and when a person does an act against the law then
it said to that he has committed the crime. Punishment is prescribed for violation of the law.
These laws are kind of examples of behavioural code that is to be followed by everyone.
Social stigma is attached with the crime. All then breaches are not criminal as some are civil
breach and some are breach of contract. There are various conditions and situations due to
which a person commits a crime like economic, political, social and psychological (What is
a Crime?, 2019). Criminal Law in Australia has developed from English Common Law.
Australia has a central government consisting of six states. The minimum age for trial in
juvenile court is seven years and 16 years for trial in adult court in most of the states in
Australia.
There are the minors aged between 10 years and 18 years. Sometimes these minors
also commit crimes intentionally or unintentionally. The offences committed by these people
will be considered as delinquent acts and not crime (Juvenile Delinquents, 2019). The
juvenile crimes are serious issue in every nation. Children after 18 years are tends to
complete their educations and are on the way to make their career but some of the children
engaged into criminal activities. This is very serious concern as the future of any country is
on the shoulder of youngsters. There has been significant rise in the crimes and offences by
youth (Why Teens Turn into Criminals: Finding the Root Causes, 2015).
The report by the Australia Bureau of Statistics demonstrated that adolescents
represented 13% of those in police authority. In 2003, people between the ages of 15 and 19
represented the most elevated wrongdoing rate and booking. The adolescent guilty parties
were multiple times more than different wrongdoers were. Adolescent wrongdoers were
generally accused of undesirable section, robbery, and ambush and engine vehicle burglary.
Instances of adolescent murder, sexual brutality, theft and extortion were negligible (Youth
Offenders, 2019).
It involves worry that adolescent take part in wrongdoing either separately or in
groups. Joblessness is one reason given for this conduct. In any case, it is important to inspect
racial business segregation as far as race. Measurements have appeared there is a huge
dissimilarity between joblessness rates of minority adolescents with that of youth overall. An
investigation done by the Australian government on adolescent culpable uncovered that
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ethnic minority youth were bound to be guilty parties. Joblessness among the adolescent was
the principle explanation behind commitment in wrongdoing. The joblessness rate for the
minority young people was multiple times higher than the general joblessness rates of
different adolescents. For example, the joblessness rate for Vietnamese Australian guys
duplicates that of the general Australian youth rate (Richards, 2011).
Reasons for Crime by Youth
Various drivers do the illegal acts. It is the result of various antagonistic monetary,
societal and family situations. To curb and tackle the wrongdoing, it is imperative to have
deep knowledge of its underlying base (Why Teens Turn into Criminals: Finding the
Root Causes, 2015). The reason behind wrongdoing contrast differently in each nation in
light of different monetary and social attributes. The reasons for wrongdoing are essentially
identified with the structure of the family, social environment and the financial condition.
Financial Conditions
The primary monetary elements which add to wrongdoing inceptions are
political/governmental condition, unemployment and poverty.
Neediness and Inequality
When there is financial crises in a person’s home then he is tend to earn money
through illegal sources as well. A person’s father is poor and due to which he is not able to go
to school and learn about the difference between right and wrong.
Joblessness
The main reason for the increasing of crime is that most of the person are jobless and they
cannot survive without money. A person who is jobless will not be having any legal source of
income so he will tend towards illegal acts to make the survival of his family.
Political Conditions
Due to political conditions in country, individuals started having feeling of frailty
from society. They know that they will not have desirable future due to their unjustifiable
ways of gaining money.
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