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Juvenile delinquency, also known "juvenile offending", is the act of minors (juveniles) who are indulging in unlawful activities treated as morally backward and devalued. At very young age the juveniles are not so mentally strong and they are also not socially, emotionally and psychologically well developed. They are prone to involve in those kind of nefarious activities which become source of their temporary pleasure and joyous moment and long term disappointments, frustrations and psychologically unstable. As per legal and virtuous system of society these involvements perish the ethical values and behaviorally drastic changes and also the juveniles linger in future to cope up with any undue and unsupportive situation.
Juvenile delinquency being it is common in world, it has very deep roots in Kashmir also and has unclasped most of juveniles who are involved in vandalism, romanticism, violent crimes, drug addiction, habitual of social networking etc. Juvenile delinquents of Kashmir are at the at of 17,18,19 or 20 and particularly they are school going students. In these years of age they commit number of crimes and most of them have been charged under criminal laws.
In recent years alarmingly a higher proportion of Kashmir youth have experienced mass arrests due criminal activities. This has done nothing but reflects more aggression in youth and change in their behaviour which is devoid of positive outlook. Policies made by Govt are not so effective to take them on the right track and has resulted total unrestrained situation. Most of teenagers now tend to offend by committing crimes not only once or a few times but repeatedly they are seen in indulging in these malpractices. When this happens the offender always displays a negative message of the society.
Major causes of juvenile delinquency
1.Behavioral change in adolescence:
During the age of adolescence an individual is running through the stress, strain and strife times begins offending or showing antisocial/aggressive behavior. Considering that most teenagers tend to show some form of antisocial or delinquent behavior during adolescence, it is important to note that some other juveniles remains life-course-persistent offenders and some of them remain adolescence-limited offenders. Once they cross the adolescence age the adolescence -limited offenders tend to drop all criminal activities and show less pathology than life-course-persistent offenders.
2. Neglectful parenting:
Neglectful parenting is characterized by a lack of proper monitoring over the daily activities of child. The child passes all his day at school or college but what kind of influences he is procuring from batch mates or peer groups the parents do not actually know and abstain to ask where their children has spent all their day. This kind of parenting is characterized by misleading the children into misbehavioural change and reinless dromedary.
3.Lack of authoritarian parenting:
There are some evidences of those families characterized by lack of family heads due to their early deaths whether naturally or due to some incidents , these families are going through enough care and management this results harsh discipline and refusal to justify discipline among family members these juveniles have maximum chances to involve in crimes and thus stand the highest probability of showing delinquent behavior.
4. Involvement in antisocial peer groups:
This factor also lead into juvenile delinquency due to lack of visionary approach of peers , difficult to curb temper over minor issues, poor self-regulation ability, and desire of spreading violence. Such delinquent activities cause huge threats to throughout their whole life span.
5.Individual risk factors:
Psychological or behavioral risk factors that may make offending more likely include low intelligence, impulsiveness or the inability to delay gratification, aggression, lack of empathy, and restlessness. Other risk factors that may be evident during childhood and adolescence age include, aggressive or troublesome behavior, language impairments, lack of emotional control etc.
6.Failing in educational attainment:
Juveniles with low intelligence are more likely to do bad in schools. This may increase the chances of offending because low educational attainment, a less attachment to school, and less educational aspirations are all risk factors for offending in themselves. Children who perform poor at school looking Impulsiveness becomes as the key aspect of a minor’s offending. In these events that teenagers are more prone to risk-taking and crime involvement.
7.To gain temporal pleasure moment:
When it comes to minor offences such as fighting, vandalism, shoplifting etc, provide a ready pleasure to juveniles as they lack positive outlook of mind but in the long run they feel distressed and distracted when they achieve proper maturity. Elements of the social bond, routine activities, opportunity, and attitudes towards violence are also included in providing mortal pleasure moments to the juveniles.
8.Family crises:
Family crises that may have an influence on offending include parental conflict or separation, criminal parents or siblings, parental abuse or neglect, and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Children who develop behavioral problems early in their families have greater risk of showing antisocial behavior, criminal activity and violence.
9. Peer rejection:
Juveniles are rejected by peers for many reasons due to violent or aggressive behavior amongst peers.This rejection can increase their aggressive tendencies, promotion of violent and deviant behavior that will lead them to commit illegal acts.
10. Mental disorders:
Juvenile delinquents who are often diagnosed with different disorders they have not perfection of mind and often involved in delinquency without thinking about future consequences.
Failure of romantic relationship:
Romanticism has brought millions of people throughout the world under its influence In fact, it is one of the weapons that Satan uses to divert people from following the way of God, because someone who has fallen into the clutches of it loses the ability to use mind over real reasons of life. And, when he cannot use his reason, then he cannot appreciate the fact hat he has been created for living his life under strict norms of religion, nor he can understand to live in accordance to the sublime truths of religion especially it is prominently found in juveniles. It is a befooling act and disease of sentimental related and whenever a juvenile follows breakage of romantic relationship then it makes a juvenile impossible to bring a subject of peace and prosperity but instead he is involved in disputes, senseless suffering, assaults, distress , cruelty and crimes.
12. Continues unrest and clampdown :
The Kashmir valley since times has thrived on love and peace adorned with the resplendent, colourful and fragrant nature. Allah( SWT) has bestowed this valley with lush green meadows, rich forests, plains and murmuring water that flows through canals, rivers, streams and springs. Every human being regardless any caste or religion has enjoyed this natural beauty with restless pleasure and felt a being living in heavenly abode. Sublimity, sanctity and the tranquility are the realm of Kashmir and never mirrored or outlook such kind of worrying and tumultuous situation. From few decades the Kashmir remains under continues turmoil and unrest had arisen from a conflict and clashes between two countries claiming their upper hand over the dispute after the withdrawal of British paramoutancy. This conflict has deep roots in Kashmir and the people of J&K especially juveniles have succumbed to psychological related ailments . Most importantly the juveniles have projected out in different antisocial and misbehavior involvements and this has been increasing alarmingly year by year.
Delinquency in the broad sense has grasped the society firmly as criminal, or other antisocial activities are at great risk factors so prevention efforts need to be comprehensive in scope this may include activities such as substance abuse education and treatment, family counseling, youth mentoring, parenting education, educational support, and youth sheltering.
Writer is a PhD Scholar
Email:---------------sheikharshid663@gmail.com
Juvenile delinquency, also known "juvenile offending", is the act of minors (juveniles) who are indulging in unlawful activities treated as morally backward and devalued. At very young age the juveniles are not so mentally strong and they are also not socially, emotionally and psychologically well developed. They are prone to involve in those kind of nefarious activities which become source of their temporary pleasure and joyous moment and long term disappointments, frustrations and psychologically unstable. As per legal and virtuous system of society these involvements perish the ethical values and behaviorally drastic changes and also the juveniles linger in future to cope up with any undue and unsupportive situation.
Juvenile delinquency being it is common in world, it has very deep roots in Kashmir also and has unclasped most of juveniles who are involved in vandalism, romanticism, violent crimes, drug addiction, habitual of social networking etc. Juvenile delinquents of Kashmir are at the at of 17,18,19 or 20 and particularly they are school going students. In these years of age they commit number of crimes and most of them have been charged under criminal laws.
In recent years alarmingly a higher proportion of Kashmir youth have experienced mass arrests due criminal activities. This has done nothing but reflects more aggression in youth and change in their behaviour which is devoid of positive outlook. Policies made by Govt are not so effective to take them on the right track and has resulted total unrestrained situation. Most of teenagers now tend to offend by committing crimes not only once or a few times but repeatedly they are seen in indulging in these malpractices. When this happens the offender always displays a negative message of the society.
Major causes of juvenile delinquency
1.Behavioral change in adolescence:
During the age of adolescence an individual is running through the stress, strain and strife times begins offending or showing antisocial/aggressive behavior. Considering that most teenagers tend to show some form of antisocial or delinquent behavior during adolescence, it is important to note that some other juveniles remains life-course-persistent offenders and some of them remain adolescence-limited offenders. Once they cross the adolescence age the adolescence -limited offenders tend to drop all criminal activities and show less pathology than life-course-persistent offenders.
2. Neglectful parenting:
Neglectful parenting is characterized by a lack of proper monitoring over the daily activities of child. The child passes all his day at school or college but what kind of influences he is procuring from batch mates or peer groups the parents do not actually know and abstain to ask where their children has spent all their day. This kind of parenting is characterized by misleading the children into misbehavioural change and reinless dromedary.
3.Lack of authoritarian parenting:
There are some evidences of those families characterized by lack of family heads due to their early deaths whether naturally or due to some incidents , these families are going through enough care and management this results harsh discipline and refusal to justify discipline among family members these juveniles have maximum chances to involve in crimes and thus stand the highest probability of showing delinquent behavior.
4. Involvement in antisocial peer groups:
This factor also lead into juvenile delinquency due to lack of visionary approach of peers , difficult to curb temper over minor issues, poor self-regulation ability, and desire of spreading violence. Such delinquent activities cause huge threats to throughout their whole life span.
5.Individual risk factors:
Psychological or behavioral risk factors that may make offending more likely include low intelligence, impulsiveness or the inability to delay gratification, aggression, lack of empathy, and restlessness. Other risk factors that may be evident during childhood and adolescence age include, aggressive or troublesome behavior, language impairments, lack of emotional control etc.
6.Failing in educational attainment:
Juveniles with low intelligence are more likely to do bad in schools. This may increase the chances of offending because low educational attainment, a less attachment to school, and less educational aspirations are all risk factors for offending in themselves. Children who perform poor at school looking Impulsiveness becomes as the key aspect of a minor’s offending. In these events that teenagers are more prone to risk-taking and crime involvement.
7.To gain temporal pleasure moment:
When it comes to minor offences such as fighting, vandalism, shoplifting etc, provide a ready pleasure to juveniles as they lack positive outlook of mind but in the long run they feel distressed and distracted when they achieve proper maturity. Elements of the social bond, routine activities, opportunity, and attitudes towards violence are also included in providing mortal pleasure moments to the juveniles.
8.Family crises:
Family crises that may have an influence on offending include parental conflict or separation, criminal parents or siblings, parental abuse or neglect, and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Children who develop behavioral problems early in their families have greater risk of showing antisocial behavior, criminal activity and violence.
9. Peer rejection:
Juveniles are rejected by peers for many reasons due to violent or aggressive behavior amongst peers.This rejection can increase their aggressive tendencies, promotion of violent and deviant behavior that will lead them to commit illegal acts.
10. Mental disorders:
Juvenile delinquents who are often diagnosed with different disorders they have not perfection of mind and often involved in delinquency without thinking about future consequences.
Failure of romantic relationship:
Romanticism has brought millions of people throughout the world under its influence In fact, it is one of the weapons that Satan uses to divert people from following the way of God, because someone who has fallen into the clutches of it loses the ability to use mind over real reasons of life. And, when he cannot use his reason, then he cannot appreciate the fact hat he has been created for living his life under strict norms of religion, nor he can understand to live in accordance to the sublime truths of religion especially it is prominently found in juveniles. It is a befooling act and disease of sentimental related and whenever a juvenile follows breakage of romantic relationship then it makes a juvenile impossible to bring a subject of peace and prosperity but instead he is involved in disputes, senseless suffering, assaults, distress , cruelty and crimes.
12. Continues unrest and clampdown :
The Kashmir valley since times has thrived on love and peace adorned with the resplendent, colourful and fragrant nature. Allah( SWT) has bestowed this valley with lush green meadows, rich forests, plains and murmuring water that flows through canals, rivers, streams and springs. Every human being regardless any caste or religion has enjoyed this natural beauty with restless pleasure and felt a being living in heavenly abode. Sublimity, sanctity and the tranquility are the realm of Kashmir and never mirrored or outlook such kind of worrying and tumultuous situation. From few decades the Kashmir remains under continues turmoil and unrest had arisen from a conflict and clashes between two countries claiming their upper hand over the dispute after the withdrawal of British paramoutancy. This conflict has deep roots in Kashmir and the people of J&K especially juveniles have succumbed to psychological related ailments . Most importantly the juveniles have projected out in different antisocial and misbehavior involvements and this has been increasing alarmingly year by year.
Delinquency in the broad sense has grasped the society firmly as criminal, or other antisocial activities are at great risk factors so prevention efforts need to be comprehensive in scope this may include activities such as substance abuse education and treatment, family counseling, youth mentoring, parenting education, educational support, and youth sheltering.
Writer is a PhD Scholar
Email:---------------sheikharshid663@gmail.com
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