• FACTORS INFLUENCING JUVENILE DELINQUENCIES AMONG JUVENILE
    [A CASE STUDY OF BORSTAL TRAINING INSTITUTE GANMO, KWARA STATE.]


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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT    This study investigated the factors influencing juvenile delinquencies among juveniles in Borstal Training Institute Ganmo, Kwara State.     A sample of 150 respondents were randomly selected. A questionnaire titled “Factor Influencing Juvenile Delinquencies Questionnaire (FIJDQ) was administered to elicit relevant information from the respondents and the data collected were analysed with the use of frequency counts, simple percentages, t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).    The study revealed that parents not paying adequate attention to their children and lack ... Continue Reading

         

      QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]APPENDIXUNIVERSITY OF ILORIN INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONCOUNSELLOR EDUCATION DEPARTMENT  FACTORS INFLUENCING JUVENILE DELINQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE (FIJDQ)Dear Respondent,    This questionnaire is designed to gather information on the factors influencing juvenile delinquency. The data collected will be used for research purpose only. So, ultimate confidentiality is guaranteed. As such you are not required to write your name. Please be as objective as possible.     Thanks for your cooperation. Section A: Personal Information Instruction: Kindly tick (√) the column that is most applicable to ... Continue Reading

         

      LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLES Table 1:    Distribution of Respondents by Gender, Age, Religion and Family type  Table 2:    Means and Rank Order of items on the factors influencing juvenile Delinquency Table 3:    Mean, Standard Deviation and t-value of Respondents on factors influencing juvenile delinquencies by respondents on the basis of gender  Table 4:        Mean, Standard Deviation and t-value of Respondents on the factors influencing delinquencies by respondents on the basis of age    Table 5:        ANOVA Result on the factors influencing Juvenile Delinquencies as Expressed ... Continue Reading

         

      TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle Page   Approval Page   Dedication Acknowledgements  Table of Contents  List of Tables  Abstract    CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTIONBackground to the Study   Statement of the Problem  Research Questions   Research Hypotheses  Purpose of the Study    Significance of the Study    Operational Definition of Terms  Scope of the Study  CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATUREConcept of Juvenile Delinquency   Factors Influencing Juvenile Delinquency   Psychological Factors and Juvenile Delinquency   Preventions of Juvenile Delinquency  Summary of the Review ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Significance of the Study     This empirical study is highly relevant because it will present both quantitative and qualitative data on the trends and patterns of juvenile delinquency in our schools. Also, the factors and consequences of the juvenile delinquency in our schools will be clearly reviewed in this empirical study.     Moreover, this study will examine the roles of counsellors in controlling and correcting the delinquent students in our schools. Recently people have understood and acknowledged the fundamental roles that the counsellors play in correcting the de ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 11 ]Siegel (1992:169) argues that: Criminality actually allows troubled people to survive by producing positive psychic results; it helps them to feel free and independent; it gives them the possibility of excitement and the chance to use their skills and imagination, it provides them with the promise of positive gain; it allows them to blame others for their predicament (for example, the police), and it gives them a chance to rationalize their sense of failure (if I hadn’t gotten into trouble, I could have been a success).    Freud’s psychoanalytic explosions are ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Reliability     Reliability is the consistency, accuracy, stability and trustworthiness of a measuring instrument or scores obtained (Raji, 2009). The reliability of the instrument is concerned with how far the same test would give the same result when used for the same respondents at different occasions or with different set of equivalent items under the same conditions (Oladele, 1987). To establish the reliability of the instrument for this study, the test-re-test method was adopted; the instrument was administered in two weeks. The two set of scores generated were then ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 5 ]Hypothesis Two There is no significant difference in the factors influencing juvenile delinquencies by respondents on the basis of age. Table 4 shows that the calculated t-value is 1.25 while critical t-value is 1.96. Since the calculated t-value is less than the critical t-value, the null hypothesis, which states that there is no significant difference in the factors influencing juvenile delinquencies by respondents on the basis of age, is accepted. This shows that there is no significant difference in the factors influencing juvenile delinquencies as expressed by respondents on the basis of ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]CHAPTER FIVEDISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION Introduction     The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing juvenile delinquency as expressed by delinquent juveniles in Borstal Training Institute, Ganmo, Ilorin, Kwara State. One hundred and fourty respondents were involved in the conduct of the study. An instrument tagged “Factors Influencing Juvenile Delinquency (FIJDQ) was used to collect the required data for the investigation with respect to religion, age, sex and class level. Four null hypotheses were formulated and tested in the course of this stu ... Continue Reading

         

      REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAizer, A. (2004). Home alone: Supervision after school and child behaviour, Journal of Public Economics. Vol. 88 No.9: 184-8 August. Blum, R.W. (2002). Mothers’ influence on teen sex: Connection that promote postponing sexual intercourse. Mineapolis, MN: Center for Adolescent Health and Development, University of Minnesota: 24. Brown, S. (1998): Understanding youth and crime (Listening to Youth). Buckingham Press page 109. Delis, Matt. (2005). Career criminals in society, London United Kingdom: Sage Publications 39. Eadie, T. and Morley, R. (2003). Crime, Justice and Punishmen ... Continue Reading