CHARLES CHESTER DUANETAUYA BUENO BS CRIM 3C March 11, 2022

ACTIVITY 1.
1. DEFINITION OF DELINGQUENCY

• Delinquency is criminal behavior, or acts that do not conform to the moral or legal
standards of society, carried out by a minor.
• Delinquency implies conduct that does not conform to the legal or moral standards of
society; it usually applies only to acts that, if performed by an adult, would be termed
criminal.
• Delinquency is an antisocial and criminal behaviour committed by a person who is under
the age of 18; that is, who is not an adult.

2. WHO IS A JUVENILE DELINQUENT?

• Violation of law by a child is called Juvenile Delinquency.

• Juvenile delinquency is also called delinquency. It is the child and adolescent version of
the crime.

Juvenile delinquency shows two general types of behaviours:

1. Status offense
2. Delinquent offense
Status offenses are not considered to be good for children and adolescents. Because of the age
of the offender, these behaviours are proscribed. If these offenses are committed by adults,
behaviours are not illegal. Drinking or possessing alcohol, consuming tobacco, running away from home,
truancy or not attending school without any good reason, and violating curfew are examples of status
offenses.
These offenses also include incorrigibility, waywardness, idleness, and being ungovernable. The
juvenile justice system has devised formal labels for adolescents that are in need, which is
depending on the jurisdiction. These include:
o CHINS (child in need of supervision)
o PINS (person in need of supervision)
o MINS (minor in need of supervision)
o FINS (family in need of supervision)
o YINS (youth in need of supervision)
Delinquent offenses violate the legal statutes that also apply to adults in the criminal justice
system. Acts of violence are included under delinquent offenses such as murder, rape, armed
robbery, aggravated and simple assault, harassment, stalking, menacing, child abuse, and other
similar offenses. Delinquent offenses include acts that are concerned with property crimes, such as
burglary, theft or larceny, motor vehicle theft arson, damage to property, criminal mischief, vandalism, and
others.

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CHARLES CHESTER DUANETAUYA BUENO BS CRIM 3C March 11, 2022

3. FIVE LEVELS OF CONCERN THAT REPRESENT THE

SHORTCOMINGS IN THE LIVES OF DELIQUENTS
The five levels of concern that represent shortcomings in the lives of delinquents are the;

• Child
• Family
• School
• Peer Group
• Community

4. INDIVIDUALISTIC THEORIES OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

✓ Individualistic theories of crime examine crime as a phenomenon which is fundamentally

linked to the human individual, and locates the source of crime within certain personality
traits or thinking processes in an individual, or some mixture of both.
Individualistic theories of crime look at crime as a phenomenon that is essentially tied to
the human individual, and they place the cause of crime in an individual's personality qualities or
thought processes, or a combination of both. Individual theories in the study of criminal behavior
center on the idea that certain persons are born with criminal predispositions and have a natural
(physical or mental) desire to engage in criminal activities. These theories also promote the idea
that criminals use the same analysis and decision-making processes that law-abiding citizens do
in their daily lives, implying that the individual decision to engage in or commit crime is based
on personal balancing principles rather than defined external sociological factors. Individual
hypotheses.

5. EYESENIKNIAN THEORITICAL APPROACH

✓ Eyeseniknian theory claims that-

(i) Criminal behaviour is determined by genetic causes.
(ii) Criminal behaviour is an expression of one's personality.
Eysenck’s theory argues strongly that biological predispositions towards certain
personality traits combined with conditioning and socialization during childhood in order to
create our personality.
This interactionist approach may, therefore, be much more valid than either a biological
or environmental theory alone.

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