Journal Article 2

"Crime and Juvenile Delinquency", written by Lawrence W. Sherman, was published by Springer Science and Business Media in September 2006. This scholarly article written by Lawrence Sherman analyzes criminal behavior and examines data collected from the Uniform Crime Reporting System and other sources. He also focuses on small neighborhoods within a large city. Baltimore, Maryland was the prime example within this article. I chose this article because I learned that location is an effective agent towards criminal activity committed by juveniles. Another fact that I learned is that simple characteristics such as: race, gender, and social class are an issue to juveniles because of the neighborhood they live in, due to their poor surroundings.

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"Massachusetts Teen Admitted Killing Popular Teacher, Affidavit Says", written by Ray Sanchez, was published by CNN Justice on January 28, 2014. This article talks about the rape and murder of a high school math teacher in Massachusetts back in October of 2013. The accused suspect of this horrific crime is 15-year-old Philip Chism. In this recent article, it discusses an affidavit that was released to the public, which holds a confession from Philip Chism, who admitted to murdering his teacher. The affidavit also had in writing that Philip had video recordings and photos of the crime in his cell phone. Chism later destroyed that evidence. I chose this article because it portrays the guilt of the juvenile. Philip's guilt was slowly eating away at his conscience, which made him confess to the murder and rape of his high school teacher. It is interesting to read about a juvenile who pleads not guilty to a crime and then months later confess to committing the crime.  

Journal Article 1

"Juvenile Delinquency", written by Arnold Binder, was published by the Annual Review of Psychology in January 1988. This journal article discusses the causes of juvenile delinquency, psychological theories leading up to all different crimes committed by juveniles, personalities of juvenile offenders, and treatments that are offered. Not only does this article discuss those four topics, but also it talks about court cases that took place all the way back in 1838. I chose this scholarly journal article because it talks about topics that lead up to juvenile delinquency, which is beneficial to my studies. I also was able to get some insight about juvenile delinquency back in the early 1800s.