Causes and Remedies of Juvenile Delinquent

Causes of Juvenile Delinquent

The cause of juvenile delinquent may be classified under two major factors

A) Social Factors

1.  Broken Homes.
2. Poverty.
3. Delinquency Area.
4. Companions and Gangs.
5. Beggary.

B) Personal Factors

1. Mental Deficiency in Delinquency.
2.  Emotional problems of the individual.

C) Other Social or Environmental Factors

1. School dissatisfaction.
2. Films and pornographic literature.
3. Deep-seated inner desires.

Remedies for Juvenile Delinquency

Two methods have been suggested deal with this problem
A) Private  Measures
B) Methods of Rehabilitation

1. Legislative measures
• Apprentices Act of 1850;
• Reformatory Schools Act of 1897;
• The provision in the criminal procedure code;
• Children act;
• Suppression of immoral traffic Act;
• Probation of Offenders Act;
• Borstal Schools acts for adolescents;

Institution to Rehabilitate Juvenile Delinquents

1. Juvenile Courts;
2. Remand Homes;
3. Certified Schools;
4. Auxiliary Homes;
5. Foster homes;
6. Reformation Schools;
7. Borstal  institutions ;
8. Fit person institutions and Uncared children institutions;