Rochester Youth Development Study: Relationship Between Family and Juvenile Delinquency

The behavior of young people and family problems in families is a big problem in today's society. According to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (2010), 784 teenagers were murdered in 2010, 2199 were raped and 35,001 were arrested by intense strikes in 2010. The number of young people involved in violent crime is very harmful to every aspect of our society, but environmental factors are the main elements of this problem and need to be analyzed. The problem is how instability and confusion within the family affects the proportion of juvenile delinquents.

Research has been conducted to locate the cause of juvenile delinquency. Many of these studies focus on family relationships. In one study, when comparing teenagers who were not illegal when they were past the deadline, it was shown that more than 90% of the criminals had an unpleasant family life and were dissatisfied with the living environment It was. Only 13% of young people who are not illegal feel this feeling. Research also attracted attention to the fact that criminal seems to be a solution for them for these young people. It causes concern for young people by parents ignoring or recognizing illegal friends or solving the misfortune of family life.

In 1986, the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Bureau developed a research program on the causes and relevance of crime. The results were three forward looking longitudinal design studies: the Denver Youth Survey, the Pittsburgh Youth Study and the Rochester Youth Development Study 104 The Denver Youth Study was a community of 1,527 young people living in the high risk sample of the Denver community . Survey respondents included five age groups (7, 9, 12, 13, 15) interviewed by parents between 1988 and 1992. This research aims to acquire long-term data covering 7 -. Check the influence of child's experience and disadvantages of neighborhood on problem behavior by age 26

Focus on family relationships. In one survey, in 1985, when comparing many teenagers with non-criminal teenagers, it turned out that over 90% of criminals were living unfortunately and dissatisfied with the living environment (p. 55). . Only 13% of young people who are not illegal feel the same feelings (page 55). This particular study is my conclusion that family breakdown is the biggest cause of juvenile delinquency. School violence is not a new phenomenon. Traces of school violence can be traced back to the 1950s when the problem was not a discipline (Shaw, 1969 p. 20). During the 1950s, the difference between the two students was the punch, the most likely to be resolved in the old way. Today, the difference between students may be solved by some kind of weapon, not a fighting fight.