2. • In 1964, the United Nations report juvenile delinquency existed and has
become a widespread problem. Any attempts to rectify delinquency in
highly developed countries were unsuccessful.
• According to Sutherland, Differential association theory explains
deviance in terms of individual's social relationships. “Criminal behavior
is learnable and learned in interaction with other deviant persons
(Sutherland, 1974)”.
• Sutherland believes criminal behavior is learned through interaction
with others and not inherited.
• Warr and Stafford believes delinquency is socially transmitted and
stemmed from behavior of peers. Theorists found juvenile’s associates
have an overwhelming impact on their behavior.
3. Judge sentences Colt Lundy to 30 years in prison
Boy killed his stepfather in April
Updated: Monday, 27 Sep 2010, 6:55 PM EDT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZIUzGDc2S4
4. • Juveniles can easily be manipulated in a destructive way by their peers.
Overall the primary goal is to accomplish a practical juvenile court
system to address juvenile delinquency here in the US and
internationally.
• Controversy continues when attempting to establish international
standards, age of criminal responsibility, selecting juvenile justice
models and functional systems.
• A principal aim for the juvenile court system is to prevent offending and
re offending by children and young people worldwide.
5. A Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old
neighbor because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced
Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. (Feb. 8, 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKlg61OXxdM
6. "Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding delinquency and crime as a social
phenomena. It includes within its scope the process of making laws, breaking laws,
and of reacting toward the breaking of laws. These processes are three aspects of a
somewhat unified sequence of interactions. The objective of criminology is the
development of a body of general and verified and principles and of other types of
knowledge regarding this process of law, crime, and reaction to crime." (Edwin
Sutherland, 1974: 3)
Here is a video link to demonstrate what life is like for Juveniles in Prison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjn59b7veGE
7. References
Sutherland, Edwin. (1974). Differential Association Theory . (2012) Retrieved May 1, 2013,
from http://criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/sutherland.html
Shoemaker, D.J. (1996) . Theories of Delinquency: An Examination of Explanations of
Delinquent Behavior. Retrieved May 1, 2013, from
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/AbstractDB/AbstractDBDetails.aspx?id=161347
Kvaraceus, William. (1964) Juvenile delinquency a problem for the modern world.
Retrieved May 1, 2013, from
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001334/133429eo.pdf
