The Impact Of Family Structure In Juvenile Delinquency

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Executive Summary In this report I want to review the research areas where family and household training will help to reduce the number of incarcerated juveniles and subsequently, avoid increasing the already wide racial disparities of the incarcerated population of juveniles. The values that a person acquires from its family and home are not acquired anywhere else and such ethical and core values are crucial to determined how and why was a juvenile introduced into the state’s criminal justice system and how can it be prevented. Introduction; Impact of family structure in juvenile delinquency Family structure is a vital aspect in any person’s life, the values and norms reinforced in a person by his or her family at the right stage of life …show more content…

Family structure is factorable in juvenile delinquency in the aspect of the emotional stability of the juvenile and the reliance on his or her self to make decisions that are not or are going to lead to deviant behavior and, consequently, to another statistic of juvenile incarceration in the state of Florida. The childhood of a person is where he or she …show more content…

In the state of Florida’s Department of Juvenile Justice there are five (5) programs: CNS/Fins –ungovernable youth, Florida network of youth and family services, Inc. Pace Center for Girls. Inc., Florida Youth Challenge Academy(FYCA) and North Carolina Outward Bound School (NCOBS) (Department of juvenile justice, 2015). Out of all five programs, only one program has a parent participation involved on its curriculum. Positive parenting practices during the early years and later in adolescence appear to act as buffers preventing delinquent behavior and assisting adolescents involved in such behavior to desist from delinquency (Wright & Wright, 1994) an effort has to be made to include parents in and around their children. The programs mentioned serve for the purpose of dealing with the juvenile after it has been processed through the criminal justice system; moreover, the emphasis should also be in the parents and try to teach the parents on how to raise and positively reinforce a troubled juvenile, guides and incentives and even easier access to these programs of families that are low-income

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