Juvenile Crime

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Psychologists, criminologists, and people in law enforcement use varying perspectives to approach the problem of juvenile crime. This paper compares two of these approaches, namely, the Russell N. Cassel et. al.'s, quantitative study, entitled "Comparing the Cognitive Dissonance of 116 Juvenile Delinquent boys with that of 215 Typical High School Students", and Cheryl Thompson's theoretical inquiry, entitled "The Disposables: Our Treatment of Violent Adolescents." The paper shows that both papers present interesting psychological factors that contribute to criminal and delinquent behavior among the youth. Both studies reach similar conclusions: that the lack of proper psychological, emotional, and intellectual stimulus lays a foundation for criminal behavior in young men.

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"The Thompson study, on the other hand, assumes that attachment disorder is an early root of serious, and even violent criminal behavior. She alludes to the role of ethnicity, observing that young African American men who have access to an extended family fare better than their counterparts who grow up with a single mother. The importance of an extended family, for example, could be challenged by the many single parents who have successfully raised children on their own."

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