Juvenile delinquency is the act when a person ranging from ages of 10 through 17 years commits crime in the society. Juvenile delinquency of the youth is the main product from emotional problems like family problems as well as the financial instabilities of child.
They tend to break their moral integrity and thus committing crimes. Drug abuse and sexual pleasures is their final outlet to escape from realities problems. According to Miller (1992), the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) showed a report that almost 42% of the population of African American minorities in Washington DC is subjected to juvenile delinquency cases.While in Louisiana, a total of 1,407 youth committed juvenile delinquency. The portion of 238 youth (17%) were committed for physical attack & succession; 24 (1.
7%) for homicide; 139 (9.8%) for robbery; and 107 (7.6%) for sex offenses.Because of the alarming news and impact of juvenile delinquency in the society, the government of United States made a program to lessen the impacts and cases of juvenile delinquency. Children who commits the case were been rehabilitate in a rehabilitation center to put in to realization the crime they had committed and how to escape from the disorder of their behaviors.
Parole and probation are both part of the rehabilitation program. Dressler (1959) defined parole as the release of the delinquent outside the rehabilitation center under supervision of a parole officer. The release is unconditional and the behavior of the delinquent is being monitored. While probation is the release of the delinquent to the community in which he can rehabilitate his behavior better.The delinquent under parole program had stayed in the rehabilitation center.
Both parole and probation programs are made to change the behavioral problems of the offenders.They believe that rehabilitation can be made better to the offenders if they stay in a community than staying in prison. In the parole program, offenders are given the second chance to change their behaviors, as well in the probation program. The offenders tend to learn their lesson after they undergone in this two programs.References:Case Study 1: Juvenile Court Offers Mentoring Services to Youth on Probation.
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