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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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Dealing with Delinquency
Delinquent are not a pleasant people to stay with. If you stay with them frequently, they may display their acts against you. It would have been better if we don’t have delinquents in our society. For that, there is need to deal with delinquency. This dealing may take two ways that is to prevent delinquency among non-delinquents and to prevent further delinquent behaviours from delinquents by treating them. Everybody must be concerned in this treatment and prevention for a successful achievement.
The child is seen in the society as our child, therefore the society had to use their workable more and sanctions which they applied for social control measures including the control of delinquent behaviour. Today the story is not the same, when children are viewed as children of their respected families, adult tend to lack control over their own children let alone children of other families. Adult members must help in the upbringing of these children by devoting time to attend to their problems, explaining to them the evil effects of the anti-social behaviours. The technological development that breeds more and more delinquent acts should be checked seriously; else we may be over-taken by delinquents and their acts. In views of these, some preventing and treating ways of delinquency and delinquents are highlighted below.
Management of Delinquent Behaviours/Prevention
The effects of delinquency on the individual and the society at large are enormous and negative. As a result of this, there is the need to prevent and rip it at the bud. Few things that can be done to prevent delinquency as identified by Ageton, Suzanne and Cater (1991), Schicher and Kelley (1980), and Onyejiaku are highlighted below:
- Supervision of children and Adolescent: This should be done by parent in home and teacher in the schools during their usual and daily contacts. This will help to identify this delinquent act early and occasion efforts to curbing them. Supervision should be close, continuous and consistent.
Parents should cancel the ideals of leaving their children’s care in the hands of house helps because many a times, they are not better in character. Teachers also should effectively supervise their learners because such aimed at preventing delinquency.
- Social Actions/Provisions: Social institutions should be provided and encourage the youths to belong, because they are potent enough to prevent or even curb delinquency. Such institution like Boys scout, Boys Brigade, Girls scout, Red cross society, Mary league Association etc. are all helpful. Such institutions aims at inculcation of desirable behaviours such as honestly, hardworking, punctuality etc. schools could even make it compulsory that students must belong to at least one of such society. Appointed patrons and patronesses should plan, organize and execute programmes of interest to learners that will have positives effect on them and engage them seriously.
- Ecological Alteration: This refers to environmental manipulation which discourages crime such as improving security in supermarkets increased street lighting and having defensive architectural designs. Most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with juveniles, such as juveniles, such as juvenile detention centres.
- Treating Delinquent Acts: Behaviour modification Techniques should be applied here in attempt to treat delinquents. E.g. psychodynamic approach which aimed at helping the delinquent to understand himself in a warm and accepting setting, because this approach is viewed by Sarason (1976) to be the therapists’ personality which is characterized by empathic understanding and non-possessively warmth.
- Behavioural approaches: This includes both reinforcement and conditioning procedures. Stumphauzer (1973), found Token Economy very effective for bringing order and regularity to the chaotic lives of many delinquents and shape their behaviour along socially for behaviour modification.
- Behaviour Management: - getting to the bottom of social skill deficits. Judith Odgod Smith (1995). When someone mentions behaviour management, our first thought may be about controlling students or stopping them from performing inappropriate behaviours. We expend a great deal of energy managing students so that in appropriate behaviours will not occur. However, successful termination of inappropriate behaviour is no guarantee that appropriate behaviour will take its place.
One of the most puzzling and frustrating problems encountered by parents and teachers of students will Learning Disabilities (LD) is not the student who obviously acts out or engages in overtly anti-social behaviours, but rather the one who simple fails to perform the appropriate behaviour for a given circumstance or setting.
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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---
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