Juvenile Delinquent Behavior Table

Juvenile Table Assignment 1
Learner’s Name
Combating Juvenile Delinquency
Professor’s Name
January, 31, 2020
Juvenile Delinquent Behavior
Criminology Theory: Psychological/Sociological Theories
Psychological Theories
Criminology
Theory
Define the Theory
(Define each theory listed in the
first column).
Match the Child to the Theory
(Using the following link review each
profile and select a child that aligns to
each theory: Crime Library Website,
located
at http://listverse.com/2011/05/14/top-
10-young-killers/).
Why you chose the Theory
(Review the chose of child you
made for each theory and explain
why you made each chose).
Psychodynamic
Theory
The psychodynamic theory
refers to work developed by
Sigmund Freud that holds that
an individual’s personality is
controlled by three factors
which include; the Id, Ego and
the Superego (Bornstein, 2018).
According to Freud, the Id is
responsible for making
demands while the ego puts the
demands into reality.
According to Freud, Superego
is the moral reasoning forces of
the individual personality and
which entails what is right or
wrong as perceived by society.
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson From the tale of that which
happened on that day it seems they
enjoyed when they hurt the boy
until death. This shows that the
boys were out to always fulfill the
demands of their ego even getting
pleasure to hurt others by stealing
from the sellers and they lacked
morals that control super ego.

Juvenile Table Assignment 2
Learner’s Name
Combating Juvenile Delinquency
Professor’s Name
January, 31, 2020
One is born with ID and while
one develops as toddlers they
develop Ego and which acts as
a mediator between Superego
and ID and it’s responsible for
moral acts or criminal behavior.
Behavioral Theory According to the proponents of
Behavioral Theory, they believe
that human beings are not born
with the ability to act violently
instead they learn criminal
behavior from society. Some of
the sources include mass media,
family interaction, and
environmental experiences
(Hoermann, Zupanick, &
Dombeck, 2019). Behavioral
Theory holds that one will
engage in criminal behavior
when the rewards to the
behavior outweigh the
negatives of the behavior or
punishments.
Lionel Tate Lionel learnt his deviant behavior
by watching a regular TV wrestling
match.
Moral Development
Theory
The proponents of Moral
Development Theory hold that
individuals are likely to commit
crimes or engage in deviant
behavior if they have not fully
developed intellectually.
According to the theorist the
Jesse Pomeroy One would consider Moral
Development theory as the main
cause of Jesse’s criminal acts since
instead of Jesse undergoing normal
mental development as any other
child. He was subjected to torture in
reform schools which changed his

Juvenile Table Assignment 3
Learner’s Name
Combating Juvenile Delinquency
Professor’s Name
January, 31, 2020
individuals who commit
various crimes in the society
have not fully developed or had
issues with their child-
adulthood intellectual
development (Bronk, &
Baumsteiger, 2019).
behavior to worse and deprived him
a chance to grow intellectually in
normal environment.
Personality Theory Personality theory holds that
individual’s personality is
guided by five elements;
Neuroticism, Extraversion,
Openness, Agreeableness, and
Conscientiousness (Hoermann,
et. al, 2019). According to the
proponents, hostility,
impulsivity, and narcissism are
prevalent behavior that causes
delinquent and criminal
behavior.
Craig Price Following the acts of stabbing
helpless women, it shows that Craig
was suffering from hostility and
impulsivity.
Sociological Theories
Cultural Deviance
Theory
Cultural Deviance Theory
proponents hold that one
commits crime given the
prevailing cultural norms of
social class society. For
instance, a person that is
brought up in a lower class will
tend to commit crimes that are
related to prevailing norms as
Joshua Phillips It’s clear that the bond of the
mother to Phillips and the son was
not strong if all that had happened
and the mother had not realized it
until days later.