Scribd
Upload
1K views2 pages

Understanding Juvenile Delinquency

Juvenile delinquency can arise from social and family problems experienced by teenagers. Teenagers between 10-21 years old are going through identity development and may act out by engaging in risky behaviors like fighting, drinking, or drug abuse. Some contributing factors include neglect or abuse at home, exposure to sexual behaviors at a young age, domestic violence, and low levels of education. Delinquent acts may be influenced by peer pressure to join deviant gangs or defend friends in fights over trivial matters.

Uploaded by

Randy Putra
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
1K views2 pages

Understanding Juvenile Delinquency

Juvenile delinquency can arise from social and family problems experienced by teenagers. Teenagers between 10-21 years old are going through identity development and may act out by engaging in risky behaviors like fighting, drinking, or drug abuse. Some contributing factors include neglect or abuse at home, exposure to sexual behaviors at a young age, domestic violence, and low levels of education. Delinquent acts may be influenced by peer pressure to join deviant gangs or defend friends in fights over trivial matters.

Uploaded by

Randy Putra
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
  • Juvenile Delinquency Explanation
  • Explanation Text Structure

Contoh Explanation Text about Social Phenomena 3: How Juvenile Delinquency Happens

Teenager is a transitional term for a child who is aged 10-21 years. At this stage, teens begin to
look for identity. We have often heard the term juvenile delinquency in various forms. There are
teenagers who like to brawl on the streets, get drunk, abuse drugs, and so on. How does juvenile
delinquency happen?
When you go home early in the morning due to teenagers playing online games, then in the old
days, going home early in the morning because they gather somewhere while having a drink or
going around using a motorbike to get out of town. There were some of them who had
motorcycle accidents in the middle of the night while doing this motorbike racing activity.
Fighting between students has also been around since my teenage days, the trigger is sometimes
just a trivial problem, it can only be because of a woman or it can start from a joke that offends
one of the students. In the name of solidarity and friendship they compactly clashed in defense of
their respective friends. The sanction was only a one-week suspension, and it did not deter.
Delinquency and violence committed by children and adolescents are rooted in related social
problems. Among them are violence against children and neglect carried out by parents, the
emergence of sexual behavior from an early age, domestic violence, the participation of children
in deviant gangs, and low levels of education.

Language focus :
The using of simple present tense
 Teens begin to look for identity.
 There are teenagers who like to brawl on the streets

The using of action verbs


 Brawl
 Drink

The using of noun phrases


 The term
 The sanction

The using of technical terms


 Delinquency
 Trivial

Definition of explanatory text


An explanatory text (sometimes called an explanation) is a type of non-fiction text that explains
a process (for example, how something works or why something happens).

Types of explanatory text

 Sequential – These detail the stages in an event eg: how a caterpillar turns into a moth.

 Causal - Details what causes the change from one stage to the next ie: How a president is
elected.
 Theoretical - Details the possible phenomena behind a natural or created process that is
not fully understood. eg What caused the Nazi's to lose World War II

Generic structure :
TITLES
Which identify the topic of your explanation. You may pose this as a question at the beginning
with how? or why?

STRONG OPENING STATEMENT


Identifying the process to be explained. Emphasize the process rather than the particular thing
involved in the process.

SEQUENCING
Use sequential paragraphs or statements describing how or why something happens. Show
connections such as cause and effect or temporal sequence.

WRAPPING IT UP
A strong concluding paragraph or sentence that draws everything together will add more validity
to your explanation.

VISUALS
Use graphic organizers, labelled diagrams and even videos you are constructing a digital text to
illustrate your understanding.

You might also like