A juvenile delinquency is a person that has broke the law. The person is not old enough to go to jail so will be going to juvenile center.

Please pardon my delinquency,

I was too late to answer.

Delinquency prevention focuses on implementing programs and initiatives to prevent youth from engaging in criminal or antisocial behaviors in the first place. Delinquency control involves interventions and strategies to address and manage delinquent behaviors once they have occurred, such as through law enforcement actions or judicial processes. Preventing delinquency is about stopping it before it starts, while controlling delinquency is about responding to it after it has occurred.

What are the causes of Juvenile delinquency

Neglect leads to delinquency because when a person is from a disadvantage background , poor parental care and social exclusion leads to the pathological condition of delinquency.