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| The Level of Juvenile Delinquency among Adolescents of Public and Private Universities in Uganda
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Faith Nakalema, Prof.Bantu Edward, Dr. Wilber Karugahe
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Abstract:
Families serve as one of the strongest socializing forces in a person's life. They help teach children to control unacceptable behavior, to delay gratification, and to respect the rights of others. Conversely, families can also teach children aggressive, antisocial, and violent behavior. In adults' lives, family responsibilities may provide an important stabilizing force. Given these possibilities, family life may directly contribute to the development of delinquent and criminal tendencies The research on the influence of family type, juvenile delinquency and adult criminality is important to unearth interventions to adolescents at risk of becoming latent criminals when adults. The following HO 1. That children raised in supportive, affectionate, and accepting homes are less likely to become deviant. HO 2. Children rejected by parents are among the most likely to become delinquent. HO3 that the child's disposition plays a role in this causal chain. HO 4. A troublesome child or adolescent is more likely to be rejected by parents, which creates an escalating cycle that may lead to delinquency. Results show that, since then practitioners, policymakers, and researchers have attempted to learn more about the role families play in the delinquent or criminal behavior of their offspring. Experts have developed a multitude of theoretical models and analyses linking family structure and relations to subsequent delinquency and later criminality. Criminologists suggest that a child who grows up in a dysfunctional family may learn aggressive or antisocial behavior; may not be taught to control unacceptable behavior, delay gratification, or respect the rights of others; or may not be adequately supervised to preclude association with antisocial or delinquent peers. As a consequence, they say, the child becomes inadequately socialized and unable to constrain his or her behavior within acceptable boundaries.
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