This document defines juvenile delinquency and explores its causes and remedies. Juvenile delinquents are defined as minors who break social norms and laws. Common delinquent acts include running away, idling, vulgar language, theft and sexual offenses. Causes of delinquency include factors like broken homes, poverty, bad influences, and inner desires. Suggested preventive measures include re-education, counseling, and behavioral modification. Rehabilitation methods center around legislative actions, reformatory schools, courts, and cooperation between government and private agencies. Overall the document examines the characteristics, causes and potential solutions related to juvenile delinquency.

2. INTRODUCTION
Every society prescribes a set of norms which it
expects that all its members should follow.
Those who deviate from these norms and behave
in anti-social manner are called delinquents
children and adolescents who are minor in age
and who deviate are known as juvenile
delinquents.

3. Definitions:-
VALENTINE :” Broadly speaking, the term
delinquency refers to breaking of law.”
HOWRER :” Delinquency as holes in super
ago.”

4. Who Is a Juvenile Delinquent?
(1)Running away from home without the
permission of parents.
(2)Spending time idly beyond limits.
(3)Use of vulgar languages.
(4)Wandering about rail-roads, streets, market
place.
(5)Committing sexual offences.
(6)Shop-lifting.
(7)Stealing etc.

5. Characteristics of Delinquents
(1) Physical.
(2) Temperament.
(3) Attitude.
(4) Psychological
(5) Social Cultural.

6. Types of Delinquent Acts
(1)Acquisitive Tendency.
(2)Forgery.
(3)Aggressive Tendency.
(4)The Sex Delinquency.
(5)Tendency To Escape.

7. Causes of Juvenile Delinquency
(A)Social factors favouring Juvenile Delinquency.
(1)Broken homes.
(2)Poverty.
(3)Delinquency areas.
(4)Companions and gangs.
(5)Beggary.
(6)School dissatisfaction.
(7)Heredity.
(8)Deep-seated inner desires.

8. (B)Personal factors
(1) Mental deficiency in delinquency.
(2) Emotional problems of the individual.
Remedies For Juvenile Delinquency
(A) Preventive Measures
(1)Re-education.
(2)Abreaction.
(3)Suggestion and Counseling.
(4)Environmental treatment.
(5)Modern techniques of behavior modification.

9. (B) Method of Rehabilitation
(1)Legislative Measures.
(2)Reformatory Schools.
(3)Remand Homes.
(4)Juvenile courts.
CONCLUSION:
Acts themselves have defects. Government as
well as the private agencies must work hand in
hand with all sincerity and seriousness. Officially
machinery is not effectively enforced.

10. THANK YOU
Aastha Bhatia
Educationalist