Perspectives on Juvenile Delinquency in Africa

Abstract

The central thrust of this article is to provide an overview of the juvenile delinquency phenomenon and the process involved in its cause, prevention, control, and treatment in Africa. I would there were no age between sixteen and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. William Shakespeare “The Winter's Tale”. © 1988, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.