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Delinquent may refer to: Delinquent (royalist) , Royalists whose estates had been seized during the English Civil War A juvenile delinquent , often shortened as delinquent, a young person (under 18) who fails to do that which is required by law
A Russian gopnik squats in a stairwell in a khrushchyovka building (2016). A gopnik [a] is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics—a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of working-class background who usually lives in suburban areas [2].
The term delinquent usually refers to juvenile delinquency, and is also generalised to refer to a young person who behaves an unacceptable way. [ 3 ] In the United States, a juvenile delinquent is a person who commits a crime and is under a specific age. [ 4 ]
Amicicide – the act of killing a friend (Latin: amicus "friend").; Androcide – the systematic killing of men.; Assassination – the act of killing a prominent person for either political, religious, or monetary reasons.
Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they ...
Delinquency tends to occur among the lower-working-class males who have a lack of resources available to them and live in impoverished areas, as mentioned extensively by Albert Cohen (Cohen, 1965). Bias has been known to occur among law enforcement agencies, where officers tend to place a bias on minority groups, without knowing for sure if ...
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Sukeban (スケバン/助番) is a Japanese term meaning ' delinquent girl ', and the female equivalent to the male banchō in Japanese culture. The usage of the word sukeban refers to either the leader of a girl gang or the entire gang itself, [4] [better source needed] and is not used to refer to any one member of a girl gang.