Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-200).

Inaug.-Diss.--Heidelberg. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 326-348.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-235). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master in Community Work in the Department of Social Work at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2014 / Juvenile Delinquency is not an inherent condition, but it is learned through association, imitation, pressure, needs, wants, influence and desires. There is a growing tendency in South Africa of juvenile involvement in crime. Somehow, it is believed that the juveniles are motivated by the Bill of Rights, Section 28 of the South African Constitution, which prohibits co operative punishment. In the year 2008 statistics of Empangeni Magistrates court, 15 % of juveniles appeared in court for different offences. In the year 2009 juvenile cases showed a 21 % increase and in 2011 they increased by 32 %. It is believed that if nothing is done, the economy of the country will never improve. In this study 25 Juvenile offenders were interviewed. 2 case studies of juvenile offenders who had been arrested and charged were done and 3 parents of juvenile offenders who had been arrested then successfully put on non custodial rehabilitation were interviewed. The results proved that causes are systemic. This explains that the whole community is part of the causes. Therefore, the involvement of the community is essential in the prevention of juvenile crimes. The revolutionary awareness campaigns around Umhlathuze are essential. The offender rehabilitation organizations should be given slots at schools, community meetings and conferences. Juveniles with antisocial behavior should be treated for the prevention of crime as a career. The Department of Social Development should be given staff to enable to plan, implement and evaluate policies and programs. The recreational constructive facilities should be offered in an environment that is safe. Adequate support should be given to parents as well. The South African Police need community support in this area.

The treatment of juvenile offenders was the subject of much discussion and controversy in the first half of the nineteenth century and, from 1840 onwards, there was a vociferous campaign to ban imprisonment for children and to establish schools for delinquents where the emphasis was on moral reformation and rehabilitation rather than retribution. In 1854, as a result of the Reformatory Schools Act, juvenile reformatories became part of the criminal justice system and for the next three decades they were regarded by the Home Office as the key element in the fight against juvenile crime. Nevertheless, historians pay little attention to juvenile reformatories and there is little specific literature on individual institutions or the experience of reformatory inmates. This thesis, however, examines three Protestant reformatories for boys in Lancashire and attempts both to evaluate the reformatory system in the nineteenth century and to develop a greater understanding of the character and nature of the institutions themselves. The thesis examines the impact of the juvenile reform movement on social policy and legislation, particularly the contribution made by philanthropy and the developing, pivotal role of the institution. It considers the different methods used to establish reformatories and examines the origins of the schools in the study. It discusses the ethos and regime which developed in the institutions prior to 1880 and considers the effect on management methods of the powerful alliance formed by reformatory managers and Home Office officials. This is supplemented and illustrated using profiles of fifty inmates in two institutions. The thesis then examines changes in Home Office policy after 1880 and assesses the effect of these on reformatory practice at a local level. Finally it evaluates the role played by reformatories in Lancashire where twenty five per cent of such institutions were situated at the turn of the century. The thesis concludes that the reformatory system was an upper and middle-class response to the problem of juvenile delinquency, which was associated almost exclusively with the urban working class. It also suggests that, in spite of their name, individual reformatories were concerned primarily with training and rehabilitation rather than moral reformation. In addition the evidence indicates that, although the reformatory scheme was discredited elsewhere in the late nineteenth century, reformatory schools continued to play an important part in juvenile justice in Lancashire. These institutions continued to thrive because the majority of inmates did not commit further crime and magistrates believed that they gave value for money. This examination of nineteenth-century solutions to the problem of juvenile crime also illustrates that the present debate about delinquency is hardly novel and that current strategies were first tried out a hundred and fifty years ago.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Also available in print.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how social services and police work together to prevent juvenile delinquency in the city of Malmö. The study's questions are based on how the authorities, represented by social workers and police officers, experience the cooperation between the two organizations, which enables and prevents it as well as which methods and initiatives give the best results. They are also based on what needs to be developed within the cooperation to improve the work against juvenile delinquency.  The study is based on a qualitative method in the form of nine interviews with both social workers and police officers, all working within the muncipality of Malmö. The collected material from these interviews has then been analyzed through previous research, cooperation theory and organizational theory. The results of this study show that both authorities are dependent on each other's resources to prevent juvenile delinquency. The results also show that cooperation between the social services and the police by the interviewees understood as an effective method in the work against juvenile delinquency, despite various obstacles raised by the interviewed professionals. This was, for example, the law of confidentiality. Although the generalization of the results of this study should be considered with caution, as the study is merely based on the city of Malmö.

This diploma thesis deals with the criminality of children at the first level of elementary schools. The thesis is divided into theoretical part and empirical part. In the theoretical part, we are focusing on the causes and specifics of child criminality. Than three influences that affect the child are also described. This is the effect of family, school environment and leisure time. In the practical part are statistics of child criminality. As part of empirical research, we found out how the link between leisure time and the occurrence of criminal activity is. The questionnaire method was used. The data was collection at elementary school in Prague 1. Another method was self-observation based on communication with a low-threshold center worker.