Factors responsible for juvenile delinquency among secondary school students as expressed by teachers in Ilorin metropolis
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2018
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Association of Professional Counsellors in Nigeria
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Juvenile delinquencies (JD) are rampant among secondary school students and this has become a major social concern. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors responsible for juvenile delinquency among secondary school students as expressed by teachers in Ilorin metropolis. Four moderating variables of paramount interest were gender, religion, highest educational attainment, and teaching experience. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and Juvenile Delinquency Questionnaire (JDQ) in relation to factors responsible for JD was used to obtain relevant information. The instrument was validated and the test re-test method was employed to determine its reliability which yielded a co-efficient of 0.83. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 180 respondents for the study. Five (5) research questions were raised while four (4) null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 alpha level. Percentage and weighted means were used to analyze the descriptive data while t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to test the formulated hypotheses at 0.05 alpha. The findings revealed that the major factors responsible for juvenile delinquency among secondary school students are inadequate parental love in the home; aiding and abetting crime for money and fame by religious leaders; inadequate monitoring of students by teachers; non provision of basic needs for children by parents among others. The findings also revealed that there were no significant differences in the factors responsible for juvenile delinquency among secondary school students as expressed by teachers based on gender, religion, highest educational attainment, and teaching experience. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others, that there should be proper planning and implementation of guidance programmes and interventions in order to minimize the factors responsible for juvenile delinquency. It is also imperative to come up with preventive programmes involving stakeholders in order to reduce the number of students involved in delinquency.
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Juvenile Delinquency, Students, Teachers