Examples Of Strain Theorists

The juvenile justice system is a system created to handle minors who are convicted of crimes to separate them from adult court. The justice system has many problems with racial discrimination amongst juveniles. The four theories explain the reasons sociologists explain why they believe such discrimination against other race happens. The strain theorists believe strain and stressful things on racial discrimination among juvenile delinquents are the reason why there is an increase in juvenile delinquency. The control theorists idea is that people with low levels of control especially in racial situations are more likely to have an increase in delinquency. Social learning theorists state that juveniles are more likely engage in racial crimes due

An example of the factor of strain theory is that it would be if an adolescent loses a part in a play because the main characters are a different race even if the teenager was the better actor. In this example, the adolescent experienced a loss of positive stimuli and the adolescent might feel a great amount of strain and believe the only way to get rid of stress is to release their stress into a delinquent act. The loss of positive stimuli can really affect juveniles especially if they do not know how to deal with the loss in a legal way. Also according to strain theorists, before losing positive stimuli the juvenile might try to find ways to prevent losing the positive stimuli. This component of strain theory could lead to revenge on the cause of the loss of stimuli or drug use to eliminate the stress.

Another component of strain theory is the gain of negative stimuli. An example of gaining negative stimuli is failing a class because the teacher is racist against the type of race the adolescent is and this type of situation increases a great amount of strain on adolescents. This component also relates to the loss of positive stimuli component of strain theory if the losing the chance to graduate from school was added. Theorists believe adolescents are unable to escape negative stimuli are more likely to have high rates of anger which

This type of influence can lead to crime especially if the majority of the group agrees to the crime against certain races but they are prejudice towards that race. One example of this situation is a group of teenagers threatening and assaulting a Muslim man even though some of the teenagers do not carry a dislike to Muslims but they are engaging in delinquency due to the other members of the group who have a dislike towards the Muslim. This example shows one of the reasons why social learning theorists developed this theory. Another example that shows social learning theory in a positive light is a group of people who come together due to social influence and others in the group and work towards a positive legal goal like Black People Matter, LGBTQ or Beta Club. This example shows how social learning theory decreases