This paper is a reassessment of underlying factors of juvenile delinquency in the purview of Covid-19. The study tries to judge the relationship between juvenile delinquency and impact of media, heredity, environment, time, age, school performance, economic status, association etc. The significance of the relationships has been tested. Moreover, attempt has been made to study the influence of t...

• Introduction • The Political and Economic Context of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice • The Family and Delinquency • Schools and Delinquency • The Community and Delinquency • Peer associations and Delinquency • The Social Context of Delinquency Theories • The Social Context of Juvenile Justice • The Infl uence of the Political Economy on the Practice of Juvenile Justice  ChaPTEr OU...

Developmental assets are the building blocks of development that help young people grow-up to be healthy, caring, and responsible persons. It was hypothesized that levels of developmental assets are associated with levels of juvenile delinquency. Relations between variables related to juvenile delinquency were explored using structural equation modeling techniques. The results showed significan...

This research studies the sociological factors involving in boys  juvenile delinquency in Golestan (Northern province of Iran). Delinquent behavior treats the health of family and society and causes family disorder. It tries to understand the role of family and peer groups in delinquency. As we see in Sutherland theory of differential reinforcement association and Hirshi social control verif...

juvenile delinquency can be considered as an important issue in the social sciences. also, the adolescents' leisure activities are important subjects which have been studied in the social sciences and humanities. this study assessed the relationship between leisure activities and delinquency among 610 male and female high school student in the city of shiraz. the questionnaire consists of two s...

Article history: Received August 19, 2011 Received in Revised form November, 11, 2011 Accepted 12 November 2011 Available online 18 November 2011 We present an empirical study to study the effects of different factors on juvenile delinquency. The investigation distributes 100 questionnaires among people who are involved with crime and analyzes their feedbacks. There are five hypotheses in our s...

conclusions even though the osgt is an effective technique for inculcating an optimistic attribution style in delinquent boys, this important method needs to be continually implemented in their education. results the results showed that the osgt changed the attributional styles of delinquent boys from pessimistic to optimistic. also, the follow up study showed that the effect on the delinquent ...

The increasing rate of juvenile delinquency has become a major social problem globally and locally. Researchers and concerned individuals have traced the preponderance of juvenile delinquency to the increasing rate of family instability among other factors. However, concerted inquiries into the influence of family instability on juvenile delinquency have resulted in a raging controversy. While ...