Controversy: Does Dropping Out Of School Promote Or Reduce Delinquency?

Crime and Controversy: Does dropping out of school promote or reduce Delinquency?
Overview
Delinquency among adolescents and young adults is an important social problem (Shoemaker, 2013). Debate continues to rage on whether school dropout promotes or reduces delinquency. Some argue that it contributes to crime while others are of the opposing opinion that school dropout discourages delinquency. Through this post, I argue that school dropout facilitates delinquency.
Transition from childhood to adulthood is confusing and complex. Schooling is an important aspect in one’s life. It ensures discipline is installed in the kids and guide their behavior and sets limits to help them learn on how to take care of themselves. Supervision pattern is created

Through this post, there is well elaboration on life course theory.
Specific life-course theories are theoretical approaches for analyzing people’s lives within social and structural contexts. They examine how individual’s early life influences future decisions and events. Life course is a sequence of socially defined events and the roles enacted by individual over time. It focuses on connection between individual and the socioeconomic and historical context in which individual live. The approach includes observation and ideas from different disciplines such as demographic, history, sociology, psychology, economic and biology. These disciplines do not have to necessarily proceed in a given sequence but should consist the sum of person’s actual life experience. Alwin (2012) stated that life course is the contemporary study of human development and aging particularly with regard to well-being and health.
There are several fundamental principles that characterize life course approach. This

It suggests that the behavior of an individual is influenced and shaped by other individuals with whom they interact with. It is believed that through this association there is formulation of individual understanding of societal value and norms. Interaction and observation are the same method in which criminals learn their deviance. Individual behavior is primarily influenced by groups such friends, families, personal companion and peers through either direct or indirect interaction. Criminal are not naturally deviant but they learn deviance. Hence, it involves learning the techniques, drive, motives, attitudes and rationalizations. Through this learning it helps in understanding the technique, rationale and motive for particular