Juvenile delinquency is a problem these days, despite the recent decline in arrests. Approximately 2.5 million juveniles are arrested for various crimes in the United States each year. Of these, approximately 100,000 are violent crimes, however these statistics are slightly inaccurate as only half of juvenile crimes are reported (Juvenile Justice Basic Statistics, 2011). Creating interventions in favor of young people at risk means preventing them from embarking on a criminal path is a priority. Researchers and practitioners in the juvenile justice system need to gain a better understanding of the elements that contribute to delinquent behavior. The study seeks to determine the most widespread causes among the criminal population that induce a propensity towards criminal behavior. A balance is needed in attributing behavior to specific causes, but strong causal design of intervention programs may risk obtaining uncertain or unsuccessful results, although weak causal reasoning cannot be adopted for practical use and creation of interventions (Borowski, 2003). Past theories occasionally described juvenile delinquency as attributed to a single factor: poverty and social disorganization in neighborhoods, or more proximate causes such as problematic peer influences or ego deficiency (Borowski, 2003). The approach in recent models has been that delinquent behavior is due to a large number of factors operating at different levels, including both proximal and distal factors. The study will be carried out from this perspective because it would be difficult to attribute juvenile delinquency, which can take multiple forms, to a single factor which invariably acts as the cause in all cases. Delinquency can be defined as self-reporting by the frequency of committing certain actions...middle of paper...you will immediately see, for example, the link between socioeconomic status, as well as between housing and delinquent behavior. The advantage of using this study design is that it can show protective factors that might discourage delinquent behavior. If a student has greater engagement in school, he or she is less likely to have episodes of criminal behavior or show less desire to associate with peers who commit specific criminal behaviors. As a result of using the analysis, risk and protective factors could serve as a basis for future research. Furthermore, interventions based on imparting coping strategies could be developed. There is still much work to be done to fully explain why youth commit crimes, but this study will help gain insight and understand the ways in which specific factors influence various types of violent and nonviolent delinquency..