Psychopathological Analysis of Juvenile Delinquents

Abstract

Juvenile Delinquency has been one of the serious concerns all over the world from a really long time, Juveniles are the future and engagement of them in criminal activity is not the kind of future anyone wants. Children’s are not born with any criminal nature they are born selfless, guiltless with a purest nature and this criminal and delinquent nature does not acquired by them randomly, according to the research done in past few years we get to know that there are so many factors responsible for the growth of the delinquent and criminal nature among juveniles.  So, it is really important to know the factors and reasons behind the increasing indulgent of children’s into criminal activities and by knowing this we’ll be able to try and eliminate such factors which helps prevent or early intervene this juvenile delinquency and improve the juvenile delinquency prevention and intervention programs. This paper talks about the Juvenile Delinquency, factors and causes responsible for the same, theories of juvenile delinquency , current status of juvenile crime scenario in India and different types of methods and strategies used to cope with Juvenile Delinquency all around the world and conclusively proposing a concept by determining one of main root cause responsible for the juvenile engaging in criminal activity and possible solution which can be experimented to helps early intervene, prevent or reduce the rate of juvenile crimes.