Problem Of Juvenile Delinquency Research Articles

What Should Be the Role of the Parent-Teacher Association in Helping To Solve the Juvenile Delinquency Problem?

What Should Be the Role of the Parent-Teacher Association in Helping To Solve the Juvenile Delinquency Problem?

What Can the Home and the School Do About the Juvenile Delinquency Problem?

What Can the Home and the School Do About the Juvenile Delinquency Problem?

Focusing Student Attention on Civic Responsibility

community as consultants, devoted an entire day to the study of civic responsibilities of high-school youth. The experiment was sparked by a rising concern in the community because of increasing vandalism and juvenile delinquency. The program was implemented through the efforts of a committee of five faculty members and two interested laymen. As vandalism is not a problem at Mont Pleasant High School the work was regarded purely as a community service to assist, if possible, in solving a pressing community problem. Since the committee felt that a positive rather than a negative approach to the problem of juvenile delinquency and vandalism would be most effective, the emphasis was placed on the civic responsibilities of teen-agers.

PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING AND MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

INCREASINGLY, in recent years, pediatricians have been called on to work with the problem of juvenile delinquency. Published statistics on crimes and antisocial activities by children have sometimes been frightening, and loose remarks are often made about drastic remedies being needed to "curb" modern youth. In such a situation, parents naturally turn to their physicians for advice and counsel. Within the community pattern of the attack on juvenile delinquency, the "juvenile court" has a central role. If the ignorance of this editor is any index, pediatricians, in general, know little of the structure, responsibilities, jurisdiction, community relationships, and standards of juvenile courts. It is, for example, both revealing and reassuring to learn that ". . . the court stands in the position of a `protecting parent' rather than a prosecutor. . . ." The National Probation and Parole Association, a nonprofit citizen and professional organization with professional and technical staff, seeks to extend and improve probation and parole services for both children and adults throughout the country, to promote juvenile and domestic relations courts and to develop specialized facilities and programs for the detention of children. At the request of the editor, Mr. Will C. Turnbladh, Executive Director of the Association, has prepared the following interesting and informative article on the background and some of the problems of juvenile courts.

The Problems of Juvenile Delinquency in Post-War Japan

The Problems of Juvenile Delinquency in Post-War Japan

Problems of Juvenile Delinquency. Maud A. Merrill

<i>Problems of Juvenile Delinquency</i>. Maud A. Merrill

Recreation and Delinquency

prevention worth so much (8: 86). Perhaps even more significant were the various emergency programs initiated during the war years, which pointed up in no uncertain manner our lack of adequate recreational opportunities and subsequently stimulated the development of new and valuable methods of making provisions for recreation. Steiner has estimated that the total annual cost of recreation in the United States during the decade ending in 1930 amounted to $o10,65,857,000. An amount approximating $883,071,ooo was spent for games, sports, outdoor life, and other forms of recreation which are essentially the activities of physical education (9: 183). There is reason to believe that these figures were dwarfed by the amounts expended during the war years. Yet we may question whether the financial disbursements for recreation have yielded the expected returns in solving the problem of juvenile delinquency! We might even inquire whether the amounts appropriated are proving effective in combating what appears to be a laxity in the promotion of adequate recreational facilities. That recreation has been a neglected orphan and has even been considered a fad or frill in some states, from the standpoint of organization, administration, and supervision, is amply supported.

The Problem of Juvenile Delinquency

The Problem of Juvenile Delinquency

Controlling War-Time Juvenile Delinquency

As the nation faces the outcome of World War II and recognizes the necessity for national unity and teamwork, grave concern is being focused upon the problem of juvenile delinquency. With unity being jeopardized as a result of youth' ambiguous place in our present struggles, juvenile delinquency becomes a national, political issue. It is essential that the energies of the people must be concentrated on winning the war. Obviously any impediments, such as the delinquencies of youth, serve to retard the progress of the war. It must be remembered that the spread of juvenile delinquency gives aid only to the enemy. Reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, statistics gathered by local, state, and federal probation offices, and editorials in leading newspapers reveal the damaging and distracting influence juvenile delinquency is having on a nation at war. In discussing the problems of maladjustments of youth with a lay-executive of the Boy Scouts of America it was his viewpoint that the total blame should be placed upon the parents. He was opposed to mothers employed in war production plants and accused them of neglecting their children. Despite the crippling effect it would have on war manpower he suggested that these women should remain in the home. To enforce this he

Juvenile Delinquency from the Standpoint of the State

The Council of State Governments, through its Committee on Crime Control, is giving attention to the problem of juvenile delinquency from the standpoint of the state. This committee, consisting of officials from a number of states, has also been considering the courts and judicial procedure, prisons and reformatories, and the revitalization and reorganization of state police forces. Because of the relationship between juvenile delinquency and adult crime, the committee has been interested in what the state can do more effectively to prevent and control juvenile delinquency. An attempt has been made here to review the steps already taken by state agencies as a basis for later recommendations. A joint inquiry was sent to about twenty states for this purpose by the Council of State Governments and the American Public Welfare Association. The state welfare commissioners were asked to give information on definite state programs to prevent and control juvenile delinquency, whether carried on by the welfare department, the war council, or other agencies. The effect of wartime conditions in

The Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency in England during the Early Nineteenth Century

During the fourth and fifth decades of the nineteenth century, the group of English philanthropists who guided public opinion in establishing better methods of dealing with the problems of juvenile delinquency, derived their theories of the and treatment of juvenile delinquency from the observations of those who had a practical interest in this problem. These observations by magistrates, police and prison officials, managers of reformatory institutions, chaplains and social workers, appear crude and unsystematic in comparison with the studies made in the twentieth century, yet their conclusions reached the roots of this problem. Despite the vast accumulation of psychological and psychiatric literature in the past three decades, ranging from devices that test intelligence and personality to devices that explore the subconscious, it is doubtful whether there has been an increase in our understanding of the of juvenile delinquency. On the whole, the studies made since the turn of the present century have amply confirmed the observations and the simple statistical studies of the pioneer students of the nineteenth century who emphasized social and economic factors as the primary causes of delinquent behavior. The emphasis on psychological and psychiatric interpretations of the behavior of juvenile delinquents which followed h introduction of the Binet-Simon

An Approach to the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency Through the Case-Worker in the School

An Approach to the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency Through the Case-Worker in the School