Juvenile delinquency is a problem today, despite a recent decline in arrests. Approximately 2.5 million juveniles are arrested each year for various crimes in America. Approximately 100,000 of these are violent crimes, but these statistics are slightly inaccurate since only half of juvenile crimes are reported (Juvenile Justice Basic Statistics, 2011). Creating interventions to help at-risk youth means preventing them from getting on a path to crime is a priority. Researchers and professionals in the juvenile justice system need to better understand the contributing elements that lead to delinquent behavior. The study seeks to determine the most prevalent causes within the criminal population that induce a propensity for criminal behavior. There must be a balance between attributing behavior to specific causes, but strong causal designs in intervention programs may risk unsuccessful or uncertain outcomes, although weak causal reasoning cannot not be adopted for practical use and creation of interventions (Borowski, 2003). Past theories sometimes described juvenile delinquency attributed to a single factor: poverty and social disorganization in neighborhoods, or more immediate causes such as problematic peer influence or an ego deficit (Borowski, 2003). . The approach taken in recent models is 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 many forms, to a single factor which invariably serves as the cause in all cases. Delinquency can be defined as the self-reporting of the frequency of committing certain acts ...... middle of paper ...... will be seen immediately, for example the link between socio-economic status, as well that between housing and delinquent behavior. The advantage of using this study design is that it can highlight protective factors that may deter delinquent behavior. If a student is more engaged with school, they are less likely to have incidents of criminal behavior or show less desire to associate with peers who commit specific criminal behavior. Through the analysis, risk and protective factors could serve as a basis for future research. In addition, interventions based on the transmission of adaptation strategies could be developed. There is still much work to be done to fully explain why youth commit crimes, but this study will help better understand how specific factors influence various types of violent and non-violent delinquency..