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NCJ Number: 73215 Find in a Library
Title: Delinquency in Adolescence - Appeal, Experiment, or Error?
Journal: Revue de Neuropsychiatrie Infantile et d'hygiene mentale de l'enfance  Volume:26  Issue:10-11  Dated:(1978)  Pages:503-511
Author(s): J Selosse
Date Published: 1978
Annotation: Factors related to juvenile delinquency and possible means of averting juvenile delinquency are discussed.
Abstract: Juveniles in general are vulnerable because of the complex changes they undergo in a very short time while the demands made on them by society are increasing. Juveniles apprehended are most frequently 16-to-17 year-old males from socioeconomically deprived environments. To recognize and resolve delinquency problems, a systematic phenomenological approach is required to supplement purely diagnostic methods. In most early cases of occasional juvenile delinquency, delinquent behavior may be a failed attempt at adaptation or anticipation of adult roles, e.g., the 'machoman.' A desire to be independent of parents but to play the powerful role of consumer may prompt socially disadvantaged youngsters to steal. The uncertain values of the adult world contribute to juveniles' orientation difficulties, and the sociocultural confusion undermines parent-child relationships. Delinquency may also represent rebellion against changes in a society dominated by technology. Juveniles must be assisted through the tumultuous phase of maturation so that they are not stigmatized by a single reactional episode. To avoid labeling, the psychopathological approach should be limited to grave cases, and crime seriousness should be measured not by recidivism but by causes of the behavior. Society must gear penal reaction to the trial-error method of juvenile social reaction. Clinical psychologists must make the public aware of the crisis of such young 'delinquents.' Psychologists thus become mediators both in the interpersonal and the internal conflicts of juveniles. A brief 8-item bibliography is supplied. --in French.
Index Term(s): Child development; Juvenile delinquency factors; Juvenile delinquency theory; Juvenile Delinquent behavior; Labeling theory; Psychological evaluation
Page Count: 9
Format: Article
Language: French
Country: France
Note: Paper presented at a national workshop on the adolescent, organized by the French Chapter of Studies of Childhood Neuro-Psychopathology on November 26, 1977
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