Juvenile delinquency : a product of other variables

Abstract

The phenomena of youth deviating from culture and social norms is ubiquitous. Each generation perceives the next as more deviant and criminally prone. It is not clear if the phenomenon has changed or if our perceptions have changed, but youth crime and delinquency continue to occupy a place of concern and debate about social policies, regarding it. The central feature of this dissertation is to study the potential causes of JUVENILE DELINQUENCY from the local community, mainly its concern with a problem that has much exercised the minds of workers in the field of delinquency, namely, the playing of parental roles as one of the most important aetiological factors in child's character formation. The school and peer groups have also some bearing on his later adaptation to the legal norms of society. I have carried out in depth interviews with ten delinquent and non-delinquent boys from the local community. Their answers were compared to determine whether differences existed between the two groups. The results of this research are reproduced throughout my work.