The Status Reasons And Countermeasures Of Juvenile Delinquency

Juvenile delinquency has become a serious social problem with an increasing crime rate, which has brought serious social harms and drawn great attentions of academic departments as well as practice departments. General view shows that Juvenile delinquency, drugging and drug trading and environmental pollution have been taken as three major public harms in the world. Therefore, it is greatly significant to study juvenile delinquency, and it plays a theoretical role in preventing and controlling juvenile delinquency.Part One Status Quo of Current Juvenile DelinquencyDue to the impact of a minor age, intelligence and social experience and education, juveniles' criminal characteristics are greatly different from adults'. First, juveniles have fewer experiences, simple motives and objectives with greater randomness and blindness, which have been proved in great quantities of criminal cases, such as intentionally hurt in order to take revenge and robbery and theft with the purpose of illegal possession of property. Second, juvenile delinquency is in the pursuit of meeting money and material desire. Robberies, thefts and other crimes of invading property have increased considerably. Third, due to the restrictions of their own experiences and conditions, they usually summon a group of people by imposing each other and random combination. Thus, gang crimes have obviously increased. Four, criminal means have a certain extent of being crazy and cruel, and their crimes are reckless. Five, young people are the principal parts of crime. Among all the juveniles in Jilin Province, 64.2% of juveniles are in the age of 14-16-year-old. The crimes of juveniles below 14-year-old have also increased. Six, from the view of cultural quality, they are obviously uneducated. Juveniles with the levels of junior high schools or primary schools account for 70% of the whole juveniles. Seven, from the gender structure, the principal part of juvenile delinquency is the male, but female juvenile offenders are increasing year by year, and the types of crime involved are increasingly diverse.Part Two The Reasons for Juvenile DelinquencyJuvenile delinquency is a complex social problem with various reasons, such as negative social phenomena, complex social relationships, and excessive emphasis on achievement of the exam-oriented education which are inducements causing juvenile delinquency. Juvenile delinquency results from the interactions and interrelations between objective and subjective factors, and from the interactions and synthesis functions of natural, social and ideological factors. But it does not deny that natural factors such as congenital quality are the potential criminal factor, but not the decisive factor. In short, this thesis analyzes the causes of juvenile delinquency and starts with the environment closely linking to the daily lives and growth of juvenile, such as families and schools, striving to find out the real existent negative factors that induce and stimulate juvenile delinquency. Combined with juveniles' own characteristics, the thesis studies from multi-direction and multi-angle, which benefits practice department to prevent and control juvenile delinquency.Part Three Countermeasures for Preventing and Controlling Juvenile Delinquency.Juvenile delinquency is the product caused by various factors, as the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency requires integrated means and measures, which is a community project, and not a problem that will be solved by a department overnight. The problem requires social concerns, and to work together for the healthy growth of minors to create a good social environment and to build a time line of defense. Specifically, first, it is necessary to further improve legislation and standardize the behavior of minors through legal means, and formulate practical preventive measures to ensure the prevention of delinquency in accordance with the law. Second, to optimize the family atmosphere as far as possible, to provide the juvenile with a warm calm harbor. No matter what changes come forth in the family, parents must seriously take up the duty that a guardian should perform, preventing them from crime due to lack of family warmth. Three, the concept of education must be changed in the school from examination-oriented education to quality education. Schools should give full play to education functions, eliminate arbitrary persuasion of quitting the schools and expelling, in order to prevent the loss of students and reduce crime incentives. Four, judicial departments should intensify a blow against juvenile delinquency, severely strike on all kinds of ugly social phenomena, intensify the governance of surrounding environment on campus and create an enjoyable learning and living environment for the juveniles. Five, those criminal juveniles eligible for the standards should accept community corrections. Community corrections are more humane, and are able to effectively prevent juvenile delinquency cross-infection, which enables them to return to society successfully and not to commit crimes again.In short, prevention and reduction of juvenile delinquency is an urgent and difficult task. Criminal purposes can be reduced as long as the whole society including families and schools takes action, fulfill their duties, and work together for young people's healthy growth to create a good social environment.