Delinquency Prevention

(noun)

Delinquency prevention is the broad term for all efforts aimed at preventing youth from becoming involved in criminal or other antisocial activity. Prevention services may include activities such as substance abuse education and treatment, family counseling, youth mentoring, parenting education, educational support, and youth sheltering. Increasing availability and use of family planning services, including education and contraceptives helps to reduce unintended pregnancy and unwanted births, which are risk factors for delinquency.

Related Terms

Examples of Delinquency Prevention in the following topics:

  • Juvenile Crime

    • Juvenile delinquency is participation in illegal behaviors by minors.
    • A juvenile delinquent is typically under the age of 18.
    • Delinquency prevention is the broad term for all efforts aimed at preventing youth from becoming involved in criminal or other antisocial activity.
    • Because the development of delinquency in youth is influenced by numerous factors, prevention efforts need to be comprehensive in scope.
    • Describe the factors that influence the development of delinquency in youth and the ways the legal system deals with this delinquency

  • Managing Collections

    • The overall collection process should be pro-active and preventive.
    • It should use credit applications to weed out bad customers, and include a clause in the credit application that states all collection costs are reimbursed by the customer on delinquent accounts.

  • Religion and Social Support

    • These same studies revealed a positive correlation between religious involvement and lower levels of hypertension, depression, and clinical delinquency.

  • Social Control Theory

    • Toby argued that individuals engaged in non-delinquent community activities felt as thought they had too much to lose by joining delinquent groups and, hence, had a "stake in conformity."
    • Toby argued that individuals engaged in non-delinquent community activities felt as thought they had too much to lose by joining delinquent groups and, hence, had a "stake in conformity."
    • Ivan Nye's book Family Relationships and Delinquent Behavior.
    • Nye carried on the tradition of studying juvenile delinquency as a means of theorizing about deviance and social control.
    • Youth may be directly controlled through constraints imposed by parents, through limits on the opportunity for delinquency, or through parental rewards and punishments.

  • Collection from Delinquent Payables

    • This occurs when a consumer becomes severely delinquent on a debt.
    • In the United States, Federal regulations require creditors to charge-off installment loans after 120 days of delinquency, while revolving credit accounts must be charged-off after 180 days.Figure 1

  • Illegitimate Opportunity Structures: Social Class and Crime

    • Merton's social strain theory to directly address juvenile delinquency and social class.
    • In 1960, Cowan and Ohlin published Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs.
    • Cowan and Ohlin used juvenile delinquency as a case study to explore this theory of illegitimate opportunity structures.

  • Differential Association Theory

    • A person becomes delinquent because of an excess of definitions favorable to violation of law over definitions unfavorable to violation of the law.
    • One very unique aspect of this theory is that it works to explain more than just juvenile delinquency and crime committed by lower class individuals.

  • Control Theory

    • While control theory gives an adequate explanation of non-serious forms of youthful delinquency, it fails to explain adult criminal behavior and serious instances of youth crime.

  • Striking Agreements to Avoid Bankruptcy

    • Debt restructuring is a process that allows a company or individual in financial distress to reduce and renegotiate its delinquent debts in order to improve or restore liquidity and continue its operations.

  • Employee Role in Preventing and Addressing Unethical Behavior