This document discusses juvenile delinquency, including its causes and potential remedies. It defines juvenile delinquency as abnormal or antisocial behavior exhibited by juveniles below a specified age. Some key causes identified include bad company, mental conflicts, love of adventure, school dissatisfaction, poor recreation, street life, and vocational dissatisfaction. The causes are further categorized as social factors (e.g. broken homes, poverty) and personal factors (e.g. mental deficiency, emotional problems). Suggested remedies include preventive methods, like addressing social and environmental factors, as well as rehabilitative methods such as legislative measures and borstal schools.

1. Rana Zahid Zulfiqar
PhD Scholar Sociology(GCUF)
Lecturer Sociology, Multan Post Graduate
College, Multan (Pakistan).
ranazahidzulfiqar@gmail.com

2. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Juvenile delinquency is one of the most important
serious problems of the society. It is almost an
outcome of rapid urbanization and industrialization of
modern times.
A large number of children moving form rural
areas to cities or living in slum areas in cities are
found to be highly vulnerable to this process.
This has almost become a universal
problem in most of the industrialized
countries.

3. MEANING & DEFINITIONS OF
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Delinquency is a kind
of abnormality. when
an individual
deviates from the
course of normal
social life, his
behavior is called
‘delinquency’.
When a juvenile
below an age
specified under a
statute exhibits
behavior which may
prove to be
dangerous to society,
he may be called
‘juvenile delinquent’.

4. DEFINITION
“Abnormal or
antisocial behavior
by a juvenile who
is below an age
specified by
statute”.

5. RUNNING
AWAY FROM
HOME

6. Runaway
Children

7. Wandering
on Streets,
Railway
Stations,
Roads etc.

8. BAD COMPANY

10. WHO IS A JUVENILE DELINQUENT
Juvenile
delinquents are
those offenders
including boys and
girls who are
normally under 16
year of age.
A juvenile
delinquent is a
young person
incorrigible or
habitual
disobedient.

11. ACT OF DELINQUENCY MAY INCLUDE
Running away from home without permission of parents.
Habitual truancy beyond the control of parents.
Use of vulgar language.
Wandering rail, roads, streets, market places.
Visiting gambling centers.
Committing sexual offenders.
Shop lifting.
Stealing etc.
Juveniles may do such activities singly or through a gang.

12. CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
According to Healy & Bronner the cause of juvenile delinquency are:
Bad company.
Mental conflicts.
Love of adventure.
School dissatisfaction.
Poor recreation.
Street life.
Vocational dissatisfaction.

13. THE CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY MAY
BE CLASSIFIED UNDER TWO MAJOR FACTORS
SOCIAL
FACTOR
Personality
Factor

14. SOCIAL FACTORS
Broken homes.
Poverty.
Delinquency areas.
Companion & Gangs.
Begging.
Other Social or environmental
factors:
School dissatisfaction.
Film and pornography literature

15. PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL FACTORS
Mental deficiency in delinquency
It has been observed that good number of delinquents
are mentally deficient.
Emotional problems of individuals
Mental troubles and emotional maladjustments are strong factor
in delinquency. Delinquents are not born so, but they become so
due to social circumstances and personal deficiencies.
Thus it may be said that juvenile delinquency is the result of both
social or environmental and personal or individual factors.

16. REMEDIES FOR JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY
• It is known that the delinquent child of today may turn
out to be a chronic criminals tomorrow.
• Discussions, debates and studies have been made at
the national as well as international levels by scholars
to seek out effective remedy for this problem.
• Two methods have been suggested to deal with this
problems:
1. Preventive method
2. Rehabilitative method.

17. REHABILITATIVE METHOD
Legislative
measures.
Borstal
schools.