Perspectives on Juvenile Delinquency in Africa

A Sociological Study on the Juvenile Delinquency in Golestan

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...

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Juvenile Delinquency

potentiality the mature pattern of social behaviour depends upon the pattern of behaviour established in early family relationships. Normal behaviour presupposes that the child in the home should have met firstly with stable and secure affection. This is a biological need without which he cannot develop normally. In its absence, relative or, rarely, complete, he will be liable to a wide variety...

Juvenile Delinquency

A chapter on the mental growth of the child, precedes an attempt to correlate aetiological factors with the stages of child development and so to reveal the psychological basis determining the origins of susceptibility to delinquency. Here the general views of Aichhorn. Healy and Bronner, Kate Friedlander, Bowlby, Stott, Glucks and Bovet are briefly represented and examined. Most of the book co...

Juvenile Delinquency

p0rnrnenting on the Presidential Address at the B.M.A. meeting last summer: "Mr. lJaSer emphasised the need, above all, to face some of the problems of today, increasing *sure, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and road accidents, and he thought that the ate and public bodies should take a more practical part in their solution. His implied Ceptance of the need for partnership between the State ...