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Patterns And Causes Of Juvenile Delinquency As Expressed By Secondary School Students
[A CASE STUDY OF IBARAPA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OYO STATE]
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Significance of the Study
The findings of this study would be of immense benefits to the students, school authorities, parents, school counsellors and counsellors under training.
The findings of this study would be of great benefit to secondary school students in Ibarapa Local Government Area by becoming aware of the patterns and causes of juvenile delinquency behaviours among their co-students and its consequences on them, their family and the society at large so that they may abstain from any causes of delinquent behaviour. The findings would also help students to realize their potentials and thereby enable them to contribute to the development of the country through their productivity and hence become good citizen.
The findings of this study would help the school administrators, non-teaching and teaching staff saddled with the responsibility of understanding the patterns and causes that are responsible for juvenile delinquency behaviours and also equipped them with strategies to treat students with the problem of juvenile delinquency. For instance, this study aims at revealing the psychological conceptions of those considered juveniles and help provide insight into their way of life. This in turn could offer the teachers a better means of understanding students and may also assist in putting up programs that will help to treat with juvenile students instead of casting them out.
The result of juvenile delinquency behaviours in school may be used by parents and members of the society in coming up with measures that can be employed to prevent delinquent behaviours and ensure that their children refrain from any acts of delinquent behaviour.
The finding of this study would provide professional counsellors with the understanding of the factors responsible for the causes of juvenile delinquency behaviour and creating suitable counselling strategies that will help them in dealing with the problem of delinquent behaviour in schools.
The counsellors under training would also benefit from the findings of this study as the knowledge of delinquent behaviour is rarely provided during undergraduate training.
Operational Definition of Terms
The following terms are operationally defined as used in the study:
Adolescence: refers to the transitory period where an adolescent is experiencing spurt growth and development. The adolescent years fall within 10-21 years.
Causes of Juvenile Delinquency: Factors motivating adolescents towards engaging in anti-social behaviours.
Juvenile Delinquency: It refers behaviours committed by an adolescents which deviates from societal acceptance and punishable by law.
Juvenile: Adolescents within the age bracket 10-21 years old.
Delinquency: It refers behaviours that deviates from societal acceptance and punishable by law.
Patterns of Juvenile Delinquency: Different types of anti-social behaviours perpetrating by secondary school. These include; stealing, rape, drug offences, murder, to mention but a few.
Secondary School Students: Adolescents within the age range of 10-21 in both junior and senior classes.
Scope of the Study
The study is limited to patterns and causes of juvenile delinquency as expressed by secondary school students in Ibarapa Local Government Area, Oyo State. Multi stage sampling technique was used to select 200 respondents from secondary schools in Ibarapa Local Government Area. Questionnaire titled “Patterns and Causes of Juvenile Delinquency Questionnaire†(PCJDQ) was used to gather data for the study. Frequency counts and percentages were used to analyze the demographic data section, while t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to compare the mean of two or more different groups according to the study.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThe challenges of adolescents are enormous simply because of diverse growth and development that characterized this stage, this lead many adolescents into delinquent behaviours. This study thus investigated the patterns and causes of delinquent behaviours as expressed by secondary school students in Ibarapa Local Government Area, Oyo State. The study also examined the influence of variables such as gender, age and residential area on respondents’ expressions. Descriptive survey de ... Continue reading---
APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]SECTION C: Causes of Juvenile DelinquencyDirection: Kindly put a tick ( ) in the column that you consider as most applicable to you. There is no right or wrong responses. Please respond to all items as honestly as possible using the rating scales: SA - Strongly Agree; A - Agree; D – Disagree and SD - Strongly Disagree. ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLES Title 1. Demographic characteristics of respondents 2. Mean and rank order of patterns of juvenile delinquency among students 3. Mean and rank order of causes of juvenile delinquency 4. Mean, SD and t-test results comparing respondents’ expression on patterns of juvenile delinquency based on gender 5. Mean, SD and t-test results comparing respondents’ expression o ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSContent Title page Certification 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 THE RELATED LITERATUREConcept of Adolescence Concept of Juvenile Delinquency Theories of Juvenile Delinquency Age and Juvenile Delinquen ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 10 ]The juvenile delinquency is expression of unsatisfied desires and urges. For a delinquent, his deviant act is a normal response to his inner desire. Like a non delinquent a delinquent is also conditioned by various attending and prevailing circumstances around him. A juvenile delinquent is a person who has been so adjudicated by a judicial court though he may be no different from other children who are not delinquent. Delinquency is an act, conduct or interaction which is socially undesirable (T ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Psychometric Properties of the Instrument The psychometric analysis of the instrument was based on the validity and reliability measure. The properties are presented thus;Validity: Adewumi (1998) noted that a measuring instrument is described as valid when it measures truly and accurately the quality it is meant to measure. Validity is one of the most crucial psychometric properties of measurement and it is concerned with whether a test or scale really measures what it purports to measure. ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 7 ]Research Question 2: What are the causes of juvenile delinquency among secondary school students in Ibarapa Local Government Area?Table 3 depicts the mean and rank order of respondents’ responses on causes of juvenile delinquency. The table shows that the respondents agreed to all the identified items as causes of juvenile delinquencies as the response scores are above average mean score of 2.5. However, items 1, 4, 12, 5 and 3 were ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th with mean scores of 3. ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]RecommendationsThe following recommendations were made based on the findings of the study:1. Parents and the society should provide for the needs of adolescents (most especially the basic needs) so that they can be prevented from engaging in delinquent behaviours that may negatively influence their future.2. The school authorities should monitor students’ activities and encourage them on the needs to associate with peers that help them improve in their academic pursuits and mo ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Smetana, J. G., Campione,-Barr, N. & Metzger, A. (2006). Adolescent development in interpersonal and societal contexts. Annual Review of Psychology, 57, 255-284.Snyder, H, N. & Sickmund, M. (2006). Juvenile offenders and victims. 2006 national report. Washington DC, US department of Justice, Office of Justice programmes office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Steinberg, L. & Monahan, K. C. (2007). Age differences in resistance to peer influence. Development Psychology 43(6): 1531- ... Continue reading---
