Juvenile Gang Delinquency and Its Origin: Multifaceted Approach
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Many Social factors are frequently used to explain juvenile delinquency and the emergence and persistence of juvenile gangs. Sociological theories, such as social control, containment, differential association, anomie, and labeling reflect different levels of predictive utility relative to delinquent conduct and are invoked to account for juvenile offending behavior. A survey of literature discloses that it is necessary to employ various sociological factors simultaneously to gain a better understanding of the cause of juvenile gang delinquency. Based on the findings of this research with the meticulous statistical analysis, thus, it is suggested that using a strategy from several theoretical explanations simultaneously to account for delinquent conduct and gang formation has greater predictive utility as opposed to using single-theoretical explanations.
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