NCJ Number
108511
Journal
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Dated: (Winter 1987) Pages: 213-230
Date Published
1987
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This paper aims to present an updated, comprehensive review of juvenile delinquency in Israel, charting out the main body of relevant legislation, theoretical approaches to the issue, practical working models examined over the years, and the various specially designed agencies for juvenile delinquencies: the police, the youth probation service, and the juvenile courts.
Abstract
In addition, this paper deals with the longitudinal trends of Jewish minors' criminology patterns since 1948 to 1984, setting it in a general framework of immigration and socialization theories. A special section is devoted to an analysis of the juvenile delinquency of Arab Israeli minorities, and includes a comparative overview of verdicts given in court. Crime is a socially marked phenomena with different approaches and explanations, shaped by differing cultures, changing times, and emerging new theories. Juvenile delinquency is particularly prone to these, because of its being imbedded in a psychoeducational ethos, which hopes to prevent, correct, and reform. (Publisher abstract)