JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

Juvenile Delinquency is one of bad condition of the teenagers environment that happen routinely and sometimes suddenly make them doing some strange attitude when we led this situation running, it will make the serious problem.  By remembering the horrible effects, before the bad condition happened we should prevent it. And if it forced happened we have to look for the solution.

Here are the definition of Juvenile of Delinquency aaording to the expert :

·         According to Kartono is a sociological scientist, he said that Juvenile Delinquency is a social pathologic symptom which was caused by one form of social disobedience. The effect is they will do a  strange action.

·         Accoding to Santrock, juvenile delinquency is a collection of any kinds of teenager’s behavior whose are not accepted by the social so it will be a criminal act.   

There are many causes of Juvenile Delinquency, it can be internal causes or external causes, namely :

·         Internal Causes

1.      Hormone Changing

As we know, the human growing from the baby until adult and they have changing out in their own body.

For teenagers there are many changing in physic and hormone, in this influence to their attitude and habit.

2.      The weak of Self Control

The teenagers who couldn’t learn and diver a behavior whose could and couldn’t accepted, they will do a negative act, and for them who known the differences which one is good behavior and bad behavior, but they can’t control themselves to do something as they know about it.

3.      Mental Crisis

It is coused of the teenagers don’t have self esteem. If this situation allowed, they can do the strange sthing. Ex: they become the certain ideology member that can endanger themselves.

·         External Causes

1.      Relationship

This factor very influence for their life. The good relationship will make become the good teenagers but the other hand the bad relationship will create the bad person.

There are three relationship environments, those are

a.       School environment

School environment can influence someone’s attitude, a good student can be changed to be a bad one because they often be friends to a bad man. For example, a clever student  in the class, he/she can be a bad students because he always make a friends with a bad student, such as watching a bad movie with their friends, consumed the drugs, doing free sex, etc they can do this act because there are no parent’s superintendence as they are in school.

 

b.      Social Environment

Social environment is one of the place that very dangerous for the teenagers.  A bad environment will influence someone’s character  because mostly the teenagers often follow the human’s act in their environment .

c.       A bad Family Relationship

Vitaro, Brenddgen and Tremblay State belief that family has a strong  influence of positive or delinquent behavior.

Like an aphorism said that fruits fall not far from the tree, it means that the someone’s attitude are not different from their family. A good family will create a good child, and just the opposite that a bad family will create a bad family/ child too.

Commonly a bad family relationship is often being in a single parent. The economic resources are limited and the parent likely has far less time to spend with their children. Sometimes this problem happened in a complete but they are very busy in career. Therefore he children get less attention. Beside that, broken Home family factor will be a cause for teenager in doing Juvenile Delinquency.  When the parent divorce, the children will get stress and even depression. If the children are good one (relating to the education) they will have to do the positive thing. But commonly the children who have a broken home family will do bad thing likely: drugs, free sex, and so on.

2.      Lack of the religion knowledge

Good education religion knowledge is very important for character building and behavior. While education to influence in politeness and good attitude.

Lack of religion knowledge causes dangerous attitude, namely rob even become killer just want to win something, drink, other crime.

3.      Media and Technology

As we know, there are many media / technology that influence teenagers development. Likely internet, television, hand phone, magazines, etc. If we can’t control them in using those media/ technology it will be a dangerous for them.