juvenile delinquency


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juvenile delinquency

n.
Antisocial or criminal behavior by juveniles.
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juvenile delinquency

n
(Law) antisocial or criminal conduct by juvenile delinquents
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ju′venile delin′quency


n.
illegal or antisocial behavior by a minor, constituting a matter for action by the juvenile courts.
[1810–20]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.juvenile delinquency - an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor
misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed - improper or wicked or immoral behavior
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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Translations

juvenile delinquency

ndelinquenza minorile
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The bill on juvenile delinquency, which concerns minors., he said was wide-ranging and would include prevention and rehabilitation programmes so that children do not have to go before the court, unless their programme treatment fails.
We conclude that a circuit court can resume suspended juvenile delinquency proceedings to reexamine the competency of a juvenile who was initially found not competent and not likely to become competent within the statutory time frame.
Among outstanding chapters, Shari Orisich contributes an analysis of how specialists in social work and the court system wrote about juvenile delinquency in Mexico City, Mexico, from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Dubai: Juvenile delinquency can be prevented if parents spend more time with their children, officials said on Monday.
Divorce of parents, degradation of family institute are among important factors of growing rate of juvenile delinquency. Minors committed 955 crimes in the first half of this year versus 461 crimes in the previous year.
The amendment clarifies the definition of a trial and specifies how many members on the Juvenile Law Committee must be certified in juvenile dependency law and juvenile delinquency law.
The second view understands juvenile delinquency as a "cry for help" from juveniles who come from abusive and neglectful family environments.
As a special form of social deviance, the juvenile delinquency is defined as "the conduct of all minors and young people in conflict with the rules of social coexistence accepted and recognized in society" (Banciu Radulescu, 2002: 7).
The results indicate that these variables do not contribute significantly or have limited effects in juvenile delinquency denoting Pakistani context.
Juvenile delinquency can be corrected by providing social, religious, moral and psychological guidance, the Minister said at the seminar.
Parents of several minors were also summoned, in accordance with the law on juvenile delinquency, which states that juvenile's legal guardian will face punishment if the child commits a crime.
Earlier Wednesday, army units clashed with terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) around the Juvenile Delinquency Institute and the main electricity station and in Sakhr village in the southern countryside of the northeastern province.

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