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Family Instability And Juvenile Delinquency
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The family as a universal social institution exists in all human society. It forms the basis without which no society can survive. It is from here the individual picks up a “self†through the process of socialization. Various factors have been associated with delinquency, but the most important is the quality of relationship between parents and children. Some observers of social life have argued that the family no longer functions as a useful social unit.
The method employed for the study is the survey method and the purposive/judgemental sampling technique of the non-probability sampling method.
Based on the data collected, we found that domestic violence does determine delinquency in children, that large family does not engender delinquency, that children who associate with delinquents usually became delinquents, and that there was a relationship between parents’ criminal record and deviance in children.
We concluded by saying that since delinquency emanates from the home from, much attention should be focused on childhood and family life.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Some observers of social life have
argued that the family no longer functions as a useful social unit. They
contend that divorce, single-parent families, isolation, role conflict,
out-of-wedlock births, unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse, and
violence are some of the problems affecting the family today (Baltimore,
K Freudenthal 1998). The importance of given the family as a
contributory factor to delinquency has varied through the years Karen
Wilkinson has classified the attentio ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Some observers of social life have
argued that the family no longer functions as a useful social unit. They
contend that divorce, single-parent families, isolation, role conflict,
out-of-wedlock births, unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse, and
violence are some of the problems affecting the family today (Baltimore,
K Freudenthal 1998). The importance of given the family as a
contributory factor to delinquency has varied through the years Karen
Wilkinson has classified the attentio ... Continue reading---
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