The Influence of Modernity on Juvenile Delinquency

Abstract

The research background of this paper is based on the post-modern tide of juvenile delinquency, which aims to explore what factors affect the fluctuation of juvenile delinquency in the process of modernity. This will bring broader results and significance to research in this field. Some viewpoints elucidate the social changes and new challenges brought about by emerging forces as an independent variable in the process of modernization and provide possible viewpoints and explanations for the phenomenon for later researchers. This paper enumerates the replacement and iteration factors of mass media and subculture during the third wave of modernization, and further explains the relationship between juvenile crime rate and modernity from the perspectives of psychology, sociology, and culture. The research method of this paper is mainly literature analysis, it is concluded that modernity causes a rational crisis from the perspective of capitalist spirit, mass media gradually replace family education and information output, sub-violence culture and network culture further lead to the increase of juvenile delinquency.