Juvenile Delinquency: A Need to Multiple Explanations and Interventions

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Juvenile Delinquency: A Need to Multiple Explanations and Interventions

DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1105904, PP. 1-10

Gamachu Gishe Badasa, Abdurehman Gemeda, Burash Elemo Gaduda, Bezabih Wondimu

Subject Areas: Sociology, Education, Psychology

Keywords: Delinquency, Intervention, Juvenile, Multiple, Theory, Youth

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To come up with complete understanding about the root causes of juvenile delinquency, explanations were given from different perspectives. Hence, psychologists, sociologists, political scientists and economists provide several reasons for causes of inappropriate behaviors. These are peer group pressure, family, community, and status differences among the different classes that seek to explain this phenomenon. The findings suggested that no single intervention is effective to rehabilitate the target group. Indeed, because of the fact that its origins are too much complicated so the interventions should be given at individual, family, school and community levels.

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Badasa, G. G. , Gemeda, A. , Gaduda, B. E. and Wondimu, B. (2019). Juvenile Delinquency: A Need to Multiple Explanations and Interventions. Open Access Library Journal, 6, e5904. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1105904.

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