JUVENILE

DELINQUENCY
 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
 An anti-social act or behavior of a minor which deviates from the normal pattern of rules
and regulations, custom and culture which society does not accept and which there justifies
some kind of punishment or corrective measures.
 Youth behavior which is against the norms and regulations of society which if left
unchecked would give rise to criminality.
 An act or omission committed by a minor which is not conformity with the norms of
society.
 Any act, behavior or conduct of a minor which might be brought to court and judged
whether such, is a violation of a law.
 JUVENILE

 Refers to a person of tender year.

 A minor, a youth or those who are not emancipated by law.
 Those who are below the age of majority.
 Refers to a person below 18 years of age or those but are unable to fully take care of
themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of physical
or mental disability or conditions.
 DELINQUENT

 One whose behavior has brought a minor or child in repeated conflict with the law.
 One who has committed an offense that violated the approved norms of conduct is guilty of
misdeed.
 NORMS
 Refers to the standards of behavior or conduct accepted in a given society which expected
of an individual living in that society.
 STATUS OFFENSE
 An act or omission which committed by an adult that may not be considered punishable but
which are generally considered wrong once committed by a minor.
 EXAMPLES OF STATUS OFFENSE
• Truancy
• Curfew violation
• Loitering
• Running away from home without justifiable cause
• Use of profane language
• Smoking
• Drinking of alcoholic beverages
• Disobedience to parents, guardians or school officials
• Mendicancy
• Associations with delinquent gangs
 EMANCIPATION

 Refers to the freedom from the parental authority upon reaching the age of majority.
 EXECUTIVE ORDER 209
 Setting the standard age of majority at 21 years old.

 Took effect on July 6, 1988.

 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6809
 An act lowering the age of majority from 21 years old to 18 years old and amending such
purpose Executive Order no. 209.

 Approved on December 13, 1989.

 PARENS PATRIAE
(FATHER OF THE COUNTRY)
 The doctrine that does not consider delinquent acts as criminal violation, thus, making
delinquents non-criminal persons and cannot be found guilty of a crime and punished like an
adult criminal
 views minor who violates the law as victims of improper care, custody and treatment at
home.
 Assumption by the State of the role of guardian over children whose parents are deemed
incapable or unworthy.
 The authority of the State to act on behalf of the children.
 TYPES OF DELINQUENT YOUTH
1. Social (Socialized) – those who become delinquent due to their association with people in
the society to whom they learned deviant values and later become an aggressive type who
recent the authority of anyone who make an effort to control his behavior.

2. Neurotic – those who become delinquent as a result of distortion in their personality and
their ideas and perception of the world around them. Internalize his conflicts and pre-
occupied with his own feelings.

3. Psychotic – those with severe personality disorders have a significantly distorted

perception of the society and people around them. They are likely to commit acts of
violence, including murder.
4. Sociopathic – characterized by egocentric personality. They have limited or no compassion
of others. Many violent gangsters are sociopathic.

5. Accidental – he is less identifiable in character, essentially socialized law abiding but too
happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and becomes involved in some delinquent
act not typical of his general behavior.
 DIFFERENT APPROACH TOWARD
DELINQUENCY
1. Biogenic Approach – law violations and delinquency are result of some physical defects.

2. Psychogenic Approach – personality problems that leads to misbehavior.

3. Sociogenic Approach – influence of social structure and learning process through

interactions with other members of the society.
 MARRIAGE (WEDLOCK)
 Refers to a special contact of permanent union between a man and a woman entered for
purposes of establishing conjugal and family relation.

 Social or legal contact between individuals that creates kinship.

 KINSHIP
 Refers to the human relation based whether by blood or by marriage.
 AFFILIATION
 Relative by marriage
 CONSANGUINITY

 Relative by blood.
 FORMS OF MARRIAGE
1. Monogamy – one marriage ( between one man and one woman)
2. Polygamy – having more than one marriage (one man having more than one woman or
one woman having more than one man)

• Polygyny – marriage of one man with two or more wives.

• Polyandry – marriage of one woman with two or more husband.
 KINDS OF MARRIAGE
1. Adoptive Marriage – a kind of marriage in which a family who does not have a son to
preserve their surname requests the prospective son-in-law to adopts the family name of
the bride’s parent before marriage.
2. Sororate Marriage – this is called sister-in-law marriage where a man remarries his
deceased wife’s sister.
3. Levirate Marriage – (reverse or opposite of Sororate) woman marries the brother of her
deceased husband.
4. Ghost Marriage – similar to levirate marriage. The children become the sired by the dead
husband. This means that the second husband or the brother is only a “surrogate” or who
substituted for his brother.
5. Endogamy Marriage – a form of marriage practice in some tribes that an individual should
marry from a member of one’s clan or ethic group. However, the parents may direct marriage
may be extended to the religious group or social class
6. Exogamy Marriage – the marriage prescribes that one marries outside of one’s clan or ethnic
group.
 RESIDENCE FOR MARRIAGE
1. Neolocal Residence – the couple will live in a new house (own residence)
2. Patrilocal Residence – the newly wed lives (moves) to the husband’s parents (other name
is Virilocal residence)
3. Matrilocal Residence – (Uxorical Residence) the newly wed lives or moves with the wife’s
parents residence.
4. Bilocal Residence – when the newly wed shift (transfer) residence from patrilocal to
matrilocal residence or vise versa.