1024 Available Online at www.ijscia.com | Volume 2 | Issue 6 | Nov-Dec 2021 Juveniles Justice Phillip D. Clingan Pierce College, Criminal Justice Department, USA *Corresponding author details: Dr. Phillip D. Clingan; dr.phillipclingan@gmail.com ABSTRACT The research paper addresses the problem of mastering the literature to analyze theories, interventions, strategies, and treatment programs for juvenile delinquency. The solution to this problem will help juveniles, families, and the community works together to prevent juvenile offending and make amends to the community and victims. This researcher identifies evidence-based intervention programs, theoretical causes, and multisystem therapies through secondary resources to solve this problem. These resources examine the use of evidence-based intervention and early education programs to reduce the risk of juvenile delinquency. Combined, the resources determine that an evidence-based intervention is designed specifically for juvenile offenders. The juveniles range from committing part-one index crimes to falling in and out of home services. The writing assignment describes and justifies the research problem. The literature approach compares and summarizes sources used to address theories that explain the causes of delinquency and intervention designed to stop misconduct. The research paper identifies the relationship between age and crime theory, non-parent- child attachment, and objects that lead to juvenile delinquency. The research findings illustrate how this researcher presented criminology literature to support the research problem. Keywords: juvenile delinquency; juvenile justice; juvenile decisions; juvenile actions; index crime INTRODUCTION Many theories attempt to explain why juveniles commit crimes. Why youths fail to attach to parents and approaches to identify interventions to deter criminal offending (Piquero, Farrington, Welsh, Tremblay, & Jennings, 2009). Juvenile misbehaviors and criminal offending theoretically start in early childhood. Specifically, these behaviors surface and become urges, and disruptive behavior occurs into adolescence and early adulthood (Piquero et al., 2009). Early prevention is one of the main goals to prevent behavior that disrupts the family from the youth and the community. When a parent and child can work together in early preventive training, the parents teach children how to solve problems and the effects of misguided decisions (Piquero et al., 2009). Even though research illustrates that failed attachment between child-parent relationships causes low academic results and a high risk for juvenile delinquency, early prevention can deter criminally offending. More critical, establishing evidence-based interventions that specifically target the criminal activity of the juvenile and the personality of the individual and family can lead to positive outcomes. Incorporating evidence-based interventions programs such as multidimensional treatment foster care programs, violence prevention, functional family therapy, and targeted delinquency programs will help deter future juvenile offending. The research paper tries to examine criminology literature relevant to the research problem. The research paper includes reviewing and discussing criminology literature related to the research topic in two sections. The first section consists of a discussion of prominent literature, which analyzes theoretical approaches. The second section of the research paper includes a case study of juvenile delinquents. One of the juvenile's experiences is expressed in the course text and the video called When Kids Get Life. The research paper identifies relevant and existing information that will justify the research while evaluating the literature within the past five years of research information. The following literature summarizes the sources used as supportive evidence to investigate the potential relationship between theories. The literature examines a detailed analysis of: (1) Theoretical Causes of Juvenile Delinquency (2) Strategies and Interventions to Stop Juvenile Delinquency (3) Pro's and Con's to Strategies and Interventions Criminology seeks to understand and rationalize criminal behavior related to juvenile delinquency (Bartollas & Miller, 2011). For example, the Rational Choice Theory assumes the juvenile voluntarily violates the law and uses free will. Regarding the classical school of criminology, the rational choice theory is the doctrine and is a deterrence that focuses irrationality of the offender. But, more important, juvenile delinquency does not rationalize behavior before committing a criminal act (Bartollas & Miller, 2011). DISCUSSION Despite the attention juvenile delinquents receive from committing illegal acts, one factor remains present and continues to develop theories of juvenile offending: age (Sweeten, Piquero, & Steinberg, 2013). Theories justify a multitude of psychological, biological, and sociological factors that explain the behaviors of the juvenile delinquent, especially between the ages of adolescence into young adulthood. Research shows that age is the number one direct effect on crime (Sweeten et al., 2013). Theoretical Causes of Juvenile Delinquency One continued theory or perhaps a practicing mindset of the juvenile justice system is that when juveniles commit a crime, they deserve punishment rather than treatment (Bartollas & Miller, 2011). This theory explains that the juvenile offender commits the act voluntarily and purposefully, supporting the rational choice theory. International Journal of Scientific Advances ISSN: 2708-7972 Volume: 2 | Issue: 6 | Nov - Dec 2021 Available Online: www.ijscia.com DOI: 10.51542/ijscia.v2i6.18