Concept information
Preferred term
juvenile delinquency
Definition
- Juveniles in the United States are involved in various forms of violent offenses, property offenses, drug and alcohol-related crimes, sex offenses, and gang-related offenses. Violent offenses they commit range from murder to robbery to assaults. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Juvenile Offending]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- adjudicative competence of youth
- black juvenile delinquents
- capacity to waive Miranda rights
- emotionally disturbed delinquents
- female juvenile delinquents
- female status offenders
- foreign juvenile delinquency
- handicapped delinquents
- juvenile capital punishment
- juvenile delinquency in rural areas
- juvenile fire setters
- juvenile first offenders
- juvenile inmates
- juvenile murderers
- juvenile offender risk factors
- juvenile psychopathy
- juvenile status offenders
- legal socialization
- male juvenile delinquents
- Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Version 2
- mental health needs of juvenile offenders
- mentally retarded delinquents
- middle class juvenile delinquents
- multiproblem juveniles
- risk-sophistication-treatment inventory
- runaways
- serious juvenile offenders
- Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth
- victim-offender mediation with juvenile offenders
- violent juvenile offenders
- waiver to criminal court
- young juvenile offenders
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZHQV3J79-C
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