Sentences with phrase «boy juvenile delinquent»

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If, for example, we are dealing with a juvenile delinquent, at what point are we to see this fourteen - year - old boy as responsible in spite of the social misery and disorder or family disintegration in which his life may be lived?

The setting for this film is Camp Sasquatch, where somehow a juvenile delinquent named «Flash» Carducci (Mengatti, TAG) is selected to be a CIT (counselor in training) for a cabin of young boys.

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

As a social worker and unit manager at a state institution for juvenile delinquent boys, the manager of group home for juvenile sex offenders, and a counselor at an alternative learning school, I am very comfortable with and have been very successful working with this population.

Boys who hang out in gangs also are more likely to cite juvenile delinquent gang leaders as role models.