DELINQUENCIES AND EMOTIONS
Juvenile delinquency is proven to be a disease from childhood. In Africa the average of delinquency is around 52%. One can be a juvenile without being a delinquent. But most often delinquency starts at the juvenile state which could result in rape, thief, prostitution, homosexuality, murder and other related moral and social values crimes. Transcending organization out of statistics sees the need that the society is educated concerning the subject of juvenile delinquency as such creating awareness concerning the subject.
We believe that psychologically delinquency is due to a mental or emotional instability. The more the child is unstable the more he/she is exposed to it, and could get involved in one way or another with delinquent acds. To go through it, we are to consider the different stages of life according to the different age group (people around the age 7 to15, 15 to 25 and young people above 25 years old).
Children around the age of 7-15 years’ old are very delicate because they are still building foundations, so no matter what happens their conscience captures it and it stands like an image in their memory.
Most memory researchers have considered an event to be emotional in nature if a person perceives the event to be pleasant or unpleasant in nature (to have a positive or negative valence associated with it) or if the event elicits a change in the person’s arousal level, altering how calm or how excited they are. What usually happen to the subjects of delinquency is that they perceived the seed (the event or the action that brought them in delinquency) to be unpleasant to the nature, negative and they want to bring justice to it. As they are thinking to perceive justice they are falling in unrighteousness because of wrong perceptions caused by the seed affecting them.
Parents are to take care of every aspects of the life of their children especially at this age. Now it’s a process of transformation we move from 7-15 years old to 15-25 years old where ideas are more clear and the subject chooses the way he she wishes to follow and live from there to more than 25 years old.
Talking of mental instability and inferiority complex researchers suggest that emotional stimuli and attentional functions move in parallel streams through the brain before being integrated in a specific part of the human brain’s prefrontal cortex. This is why emotional stimuli are more likely than simple distractions to interfere with your concentration on a task which distraction can destroy by leading us to delinquency. The factors interacting there can be: single family, violence in the home, poor school attendance, poor educational standards, violence in their social circles, peer pressure, socioeconomic factors, substance abuse and lack of moral and social guidance. The leading factors are functioning together as a circle of life choosed in a different circle of life as seen above.
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