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Perception Of Secondary School Students In Ilorin Metropolis On Causes Of Delinquent Behaviour
[A CASE STUDY OF IN ILORIN METROPOLIS]
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The home environment and the upbringing of children or child rearing practice of parents also is a contributing factor of delinquent behaviour among students in secondary schools. Parents tend to inadequate or ineffective in creating the appropriate condition for training the children as required. Proverb (22:6), says “Train up child in the way he/she should go and when he is old, he will not depart from itâ€.
Intelligent: - is believed to be a cause of delinquent, the belief is that delinquency is more among the highly intelligent individuals rather than the contrary as an observed case. The dull and low intelligent ones are usually caught in their delinquent acts than the smart and intelligent ones, because they miscalculate most often. They think straight jacketelly and have no operational fluid intelligence, they lack high mental alertness that could have helped then not to be caught. In a situation where the law enforcement agencies are hardworking, struck and non-discriminatory, they are more likely to detect and catch most delinquents both the intelligent and low intelligent ones.
Poverty: - poverty refers to a stake of having very little money and therefore living below standard. In our country many families do not have the quantity be able to provide situation breeds hunger, starvation and predisposes members of such families especially those below 18 to engages in illegal illicit means of survival. These manifests in stealing of money to provide food or materials things for themselves.
Influence of mass media:- which includes:
- Television programmes
- Video cassettes
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Audio visual etc. leads to students delinquent behaviours. Television programmes, which show original sexual promiscuous acts, video cassettes shoeing where women snatch another woman’s husbands, immoral programmes in newspaper and magazines.
Notably, evil manners are often learnt more easily and readily than good behaviours. One form of violent or this had been taken by them as an acceptable means of solving problems. The unfortunate audio-visual models include boxing, murder wrestling, carat, kidnapping, injecting etc. Some if not all are fast becoming part of Nigerian culture today.
Lack of quality supervision by parents: - one of the notable responsibilities of parents is to help their children develop good moral judgment, self control and socially approved behaviours. These could only be achieved through living of good exemplary life and by supervising their children without employing double standards. Parents supervision is mostly needed during the adolescent period, when peer influence and desire for adolescent independent are stronger, lack engage into the activities including delinquent acts without knowing what they are doing and the consequences.
Parents in their bid for materialism tend to forget their duties and roles in child rearing to the expenses or the children.
Broken Homes: - A broken home here refers to homes that are not intact and are not living harmoniously. Broken home due to separation of spouses as will as their children, divorce etc. A broken home could take the form of incessant quarrels among family members, husband and wife etc. Children belonging to such homes are mostly hit and affected, because parents seem not to care for their offsprings either physically or emotionally. The abandoned children could take to the streets and try to survive on their own, thereby taking to delinquent acts as means of survival. Such children are usually victims of sub-cultures. They have failed to develop good morals as he/she takes side with one the parents against the other even when the other person may be adjudged right.
Such children go out in search of parental affection, feeling of security, social opportunities and physical necessities of life and in the process they may become delinquent. Apart from the above causes, the following have been observed also as some of the potent causes of delinquency.
• Parents being indifferent or hostile to their children.
• A good child’s interpersonal relationship or association with delinquent peers.
• Parents, especially the father, being harsh to members of the family, unreasonable in his dealings and being inconsistent in controlling family members.
• Absence of cohesion, love, sense of belonging and mutual understanding among family members but more especially parents.
• Increase mobility of the population. Disruption of well established cultural patterns and family ties.
• Increased population growth, slums and social disorganization in large metropolis.
• Lack of clear sense of national purpose and direction and concern with social problems.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT This study examined perception of secondary school students in Ilorin metropolis on the causes of delinquent behaviours. The population of the study consisted of all secondary school students in Ilorin metropolis. Two hundred (200) respondents were randomly selected from the population, which include 100 J.S.S students and 100 S.S.S students. The instrument used for the study was a structured questionnaire with fifteen (15) items. The results of the study revealed t ... Continue reading---
APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]APPENDIX UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELLOR EDUCATIONDear Respondent, This research instrument is investigating secondary school students perception of the causes of delinquent behaviour in Ilorin metropolis. Your responses will be treated with utmost confidentiality. Your sincere response is required. Thanks for your co-operation. SECTION A: Personal Data Please tick the follow column that represent your personal information. Religion: Islam ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Distribution of the Respondents by Gender Table 2: Distribution of the Respondents by Religion Table 3: Distribution of Respondents by Class Level Table 4: Distribution of Respondents by Age Table 5: Items Ranking on Perception of Causes of Delinquent Behaviour Table 6: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) on perception of secondary school students on causes of delinquent behaviour on the basis of age Table 7: Duncan Mult ... 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 LITERATUREPreamble Definition of Delinquent Behaviour Types of Delinquent ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONBackground to the Study Every society wants its members to be well behaved and crime free, but seems to elude most societies, irrespective of age, sex, class level etc. One type or the other crimes are being committed. However, the general belief is that crime rate is more among the adolescent. These types of crimes are referred to as delinquent acts. Therefore, According to Helen (2001) delinquency means repeated act of a kind which when committed by a person ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER THREEMETHODOLOGY Preamble This chapter deals with the methodology used in the study, such as research design, population of the study, instrument for data collection sample and sampling technique, validity of the instrument, reliability of the instrument, procedure for data collection, method of data analysis. Research Design The research design adopted for this work is the descriptive survey design. This design was used to find out secondary school students perception of ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Test of Hypotheses In this study four (4) hypotheses were tested and presented below: Hypothesis 1: There is no significant difference in the perception of secondary school students on causes of delinquent behaviour on the basis of age. Table 6 shows analysis of variance (ANOVA) on perception of secondary school students on causes of delinquent behaviour on the basis of age. The table shows that the calculate f-ratio of 7.316 is greater than the table value of 3.00 at 0.05 alpha leve ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Recommendation In light of the above findings, the following recommendations were made: - Government should implement sanctions on students who engage in deviant behaviours by disrupting the peace of the school. - School counsellors and principals should work hand in hand to implement counselling services that will help in reducing delinquent behaviour.- Parents should also devote more time to the upbringing of their children. - Religion institutions should also pa ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAbiodun, A. (2002). Curbing examination malpractice. Thisday. p.23. Anijue, A.O. (1994). Principles of behaviour modification. Enugu: Johnman Press. Anusiem, A.U. (1987). Introduction to adolescence behaviour. Owerri: Loveday Press.Barclay and Martin (2001). Causes, effects and treatment of delinquency. New York: Prentice Hall Inc. Bernneth, D.C. and Daiton, J.C. (2001). Why college student cheat. Journal of College students personal. Carson and Butcher (992). Delinquent behaviour. New ... Continue reading---
