The main causes of juvenile crime

Vietnam Social Sciences, No. 1(159) - 2014 
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3.1. Juveniles - difficult psychological 
period for development of teenager age 
Juveniles are a social group with very 
young awareness and particular physiological 
features. In terms of psychological features, 
juveniles have a contradiction: mature body 
in immature mentality. Meanwhile, parents 
make them feel confused about themselves. 
Sometimes, teenagers are treated like 
children, sometimes like adults. In some 
circumstances, parents lead unappreciated 
educational methods and making their 
children keep a distance with them. 
Besides, one of the aspirations of teenagers 
is affirming the adulthood. Therefore, 
sometimes they choose to put up resistance 
with the wishes to prove their independence. 
In many cases, the teenagers commit crime 
to “define” themselves. They have no 
consciousness of their actions and even 
don’t know that their actions are crime. 
3.2. Some causes by carelessness from 
family, school and society 
In terms of psychology, adolescence is a 
special stage of life occurring significant 
changes that request more adaptation to the 
society. In this stage, children cannot separate 
from their parents for independence; they 
still have connection with them while 
gathering new information and trend from 
the society. With children, their families 
represent the world around them. However, 
if parents do not look after their children in 
the right ways (for example the children are 
lack of care from their families or receive 
overcautious care), the children may suffer 
from stress affecting their mental health. 
Children may develop certain bad behaviors 
such as opposing adults, telling lies, having 
inferiority complex and bad communication 
skills, always being in the defensive, lack of 
integration or overcome by fear. But these 
above expressions will be stabilized if the 
children are received good metal health care 
and the parents have timely intervention. 
Conversely, these expressions can result in 
wrong actions, behavioral disorder such as 
leaving home, playing truant, leading the 
life of wanderer, and suffering from 
depression. That leads to consequences of 
committing suicide, addicting drug and 
carrying out crime in adolescents. 
It’s noticed that most of juveniles 
nowadays don’t feel the beauty of life. 
Many juveniles have a family background 
in which the connection among family 
members is loose. After investigating 
various cases involving teenagers, we find 
out that the subjective factors leading to 
most teenage crime are deficiency in caring 
from their family members. Many teenagers 
are the victims of neglect and bad moral in 
their families. Violence, excessive drinking, 
immorality and gambling by adults cause 
negative influences on teenagers. 
At teenage, just an unexpected conflict 

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with friends or teachers in the class can 
cause uncomfortable feeling in children, 
leading wrong actions of children in society 
after that. However, teenagers don’t get 
enough care from their teachers in schools 
and sometimes teachers even make conflicts 
become more seriously.
In addition, the government still does not 
pay enough attention to juveniles, especially 
street teenagers. Without controls of parents, 
street teenagers easily involve in social evil 
such as theft, robbery, drug-related crime, 
violation, illegal motorcycle street race or 
offenses against public.

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