Some juveniles crave attention due to low self-esteem. They think if they commit a crime it will get the attention they are lacking. It will get them attention, but in the wrong way. Grolier Encyclopedia suggests that juveniles become delinquent because they don’t have the good bonds with their parents, education or religion. It also says that if a juvenile is abused then they are most likely to be bad (Juvenile Delinquency). Other theories say, “Juveniles from single-parent families are more prone to commit crimes” (Maginnis 62). Juveniles from single-parent families are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than juveniles in two-parent families. They are more likely to drop out of school, to get pregnant as teenagers, to abuse drugs, and to be in trouble with the law. Teens are increasingly the perpetrators-an

d the victims-of criminal behavior. The number of juveniles arrested under eighteen years of age rose eighteen percent from 1983 to 1992. Murder arrests among people under the age of eighteen years old increased one hundred and eight percent; rape was up to twenty-five percent; and aggravated assault was up ninety-five percent (Maginnis 63). Juveniles who have single-family parents are more likely to use drugs more heavily and commit more crimes throughout their lives, and become gang members. They make up seventy percent of juvenile delinquents in state reform institutions and are more likely to be expelled from school.

Some theories have shown that some juveniles become delinquent because of the place and way they are growing up. “A series of studies have shown that delinquency rates are above average in the poorest sections of cities. Such areas have many broken homes and a high rate of alcoholism. They also have poor schools, high unemployment, few recreational facilities, and high crime rates. Many young people see delinquency as their only escape from boredom, poverty, and other problems.” If a child grows up watching people in their neighborhood committing crimes they will think it is okay for then to do it. They are also influenced from older siblings actions. They will grow up not knowing right from wrong. Poverty is linked to violence through disorganized neighborhoods. The effe

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