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Juvenile delinquency
1. Continuous criminal and/or antisocial behaviors by a minor who cannot be controlled by the authority of his/her parents, causes danger to others, and whose actions become the concern of police or other law enforcement agencies. A minor who engages in juvenile delinquency is known as a juvenile delinquent. Juvenile delinquents have not yet reached an age in which they can be treated as an adult according the laws of the community. However, juvenile delinquency is subject to legal action, according to laws that relate to minors.

2. Breaking of the law by a minor that is not punishable by death or life in prison.

Juvenile delinquency comes from the Latin word "juvenus" meaning "youthful," and the Latin word "delinquere" meaning "to fail." Put the two words together and you have "to fail youthful," meaning youths that fail.