CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 Introduction
This chapter focuses on summary, recommendation and conclusion of the research work, the abstract of the research study of each chapter and the findings of the study.
5.2 Summary
The research work was divided into five chapters accordingly;
The first chapter dealt with introduction and background of the study. In this, there was a conceptualization of family and family disintegration as well as deviant behaviour.
There was a statement of problem which attempted to justify that deviant behaviour is a common phenomenon and it is greatly affected by family disintegration. There werequestions that the research work intended to ask. It also contains the aims and objectives of the study, the significance of the study which justifies how significant the research work is in the contemporary Nigeria society. Lastly, it contained the scope of the study which showed the research work as limited within the metropolis of Ilorin and the operational definition of some terms used in the study.
In chapter two, attempts were made in unraveling the phenomenon called family disintegration and deviant behaviour. This, the researcher achieved by reviewing literature of different scholars on family disintegration and deviant behaviour. Scholars like Fayeye and Akintola, (1998), Berg and Bernard (2004), etc. help us to interpret what deviant behaviour and family disintegration entails, scholars like Goode (1971) help in analyzing the various causes of family disintegration. Some of the causes include illegitimacy, infidelity, internal catastrophe etc. the latter part of this chapter entails the empirical justification which is the previous research work on a closely related topic and appraisal of literature.
In chapter three, attempts were made to examine the theoretical frame work. Here, social control theory, social disorganization theory and broken window theory where used todiscuss how family disintegration influence deviant behaviour. Social disorganization was used to explain the fact that deviance is not only a social construction but also a consequenceof social disorganization of the society. Social control theory posits that deviant behaviour and delinquency result from failure of individuals to bond with conventional social groupssuch as the family, school etc. The research methodology was exhaustively discussed. This contained the research design in which the simple random sampling was used. The method was used to generalize a whole. Questionnaire was used as research instrument. The third chapter also contains the population of study which are the youth in Ilorin metropolis, as well as the technique of data analysis in which chi-square methods was used. The statistical method employed is simple percentage, while the chapter was rounded off with the hypothesis.
Chapter four was based on data presentation and analysis of data collected with the aid of questionnaire from the youth age 13-35. One hundred and twenty (128) eight respondent were randomly selected as the population size. Out of the One hundred andtwenty (128) eight questionnaire shared, one hundred and thirteen (113) questionnaire were valid for analysis.
5.3 Conclusion
The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between family disintegration and deviant behaviour. In the course of this research work, it was found thatthere were different kinds of deviant behaviour ranging from stealing, drug abuse, alcoholism, absconding from home, gang fight etc. and was common among male and female. Their causes as found were as a result of different socio-economic factors in the society as well as family disintegration. It was found that despite the prevalence of family disintegration, many of the adolescents and youths are educated. Despite the level of their education, it doesn’t have any significance on deviant behaviour. The hypothesis tested reveal that family disintegration doesn’t totally influence deviant behaviour but can be said to be as a result of lack of parental supervision, influence of peer group etc. In accordance tothis, it can l5e said that people are not born with deviant behaviour but the family and societymakes them one. This is because of the inability of a family to provide its members with necessary facilities, perform it right of socialization properly, and promote social bond within the family. The upbringing of a child should not rest solely on the family as well as society. The family should perform it responsibility on child and should serve as a good example for the youth. The family should imbibe the spirit of oneness and put aside disorganization so as to be a good example.
