What is juvenile delinquency? Well, the answer is simple: juvenile delinquency is an antisocial or criminal act performed by an individual under the age of eighteen (Wikipedia, 2005). The causes of juvenile delinquency is a little harder to explain. There are many different theories that have contributed towards the understanding of juvenile delinquency. These theories ...
Developed by Canadian sociologist Albert Bandura in the 1950’s as a way of explaining how people learn about their world, the social learning theory ( later renamed the social cognitive theory) is conceivably the most instrumental theory of learning and development. Although this theory finds it origins in many of the basic ideas of traditional ...
The single parent family is one of the “fastest growing family structures” of the past decade (Benokraitis 35). This type of family tends to be temporary because the single parent tends to remarry or marries for the first time. The single mother, the most common form of this type of family, must cope with low ...
“To agree or not to agree?” That is the question. Reviewing the four basic theories located in the Child Development textbook, appear to be quite different. Though I agree to all four theories, only two I can speak from life experiences that are proven to me to be valid. The two theories I strongly feel ...
The Chicago School of criminological theory aimed to move past the simple hard-line classical explanations of crime. Early theories of criminal behavior focused on the individual, touting such ideas as crime as a rational choice, born criminals, and physical features such as forehead size as predictors of crime. The Chicago School introduced the idea of ...
Summary One Child by Torey Hayden is the fascinating story of Torey’s experiences while teaching a “special” class. The class is for children who have special needs and do not fit into one of the other special education classes. It was known as the “garbage class.” In this class there are children of all sizes ...
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