Juvenile Deliquency

Juvenile Deliquency

Leon,  at sixteen murdered two teenage girls who had rejected his sexual advances.

Now choose a theory that would explain why Leon did what he did.

Theories include: Psychoanalytic theory, Social learning theory, Sociological theories, Anomie theory, Labeling theory, and bonding or strain theories.

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In this case, Leon finds himself committing crime by murdering the two teenage girls. His actions can be justified by this theory since he may have had pressure from his peers to pursue these girls. Their rejection makes him feel worthless and alienated after trying for quite some time. He being a teenager with the developing hormones makes him more vulnerable to…