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An 8 page research paper that address issues pertaining to juvenile delinquency. The first half of the paper looks at three major theories of delinquency: cultural transmission theory; social learning and labeling theory. Then, the writer looks at the marginal status of juveniles in society; juvenile codes and status offenses; and the juvenile court. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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cultures that were part of the urban landscape.1 The underlying concept behind this theoretical approach was that diverse nature of urban populations resulted in an "inharmonious mixture of ethnic, religious,
political, and social class subcultures," each of which had their "beliefs, traditions, values, norms, and behavioral expectations."2 Additionally, it was perceived as self-evident that having such different cultural groups in
such close proximity would generate unavoidable culture conflict, as each social group tended to view its own standards of behavior as the norm and view the standards of others as
deviant.3 Frequently in Mark Salzmans True Notebooks, which recounts his experiences working juvenile offenders, there are indications that suggest the legitimacy of this perspective. For example, on commenting why
he did not want to go to a psychologically-oriented counseling session, one of the young men in Salzmans writing class, Raashad, commented on how participants are asked to close their
eyes and picture themselves going down some stairs into a workshop in the cellar and choosing tools. He says, "You supposta choose what tools you need and put em
on your belt...First of all, I say to myself: What nigga you know got a workshop?"4 As this illustrates, there is a cultural gap between the people whom the psychologist
is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinquency is founded on the idea that the vast majority
of human behavior is socially learned.5 This necessarily leads logically to the assumption that if conformity is a learned behavior than, so too, is deviancy and that it is
acquired through the complex process of socialization.6 Specifically socialization refers to "the process whereby individuals learn and internalize the attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate to persons functioning as social beings
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