Socioeconomic Factors in Adolescent Delinquency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9972140 |
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| Authors | Nalini D Jejurikar (Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals, corresponding author), N S Shenvi (Prof. of Preventive & Social Medicine, Grant Medical College, Bombay, India) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-29 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002087288502800103 |
| OpenAlex | W1996143254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
[In Bombay, 371 delinquent boys and girls were interviewed in order to study the various socioeconomic factors. In the majority of the cases, an adverse home environ ment played a major role. 45% of the boys and 50% of the girls had incurred loss of one or both the parents. Factors like poverty, large family size, nuclear family pattern and illiteracy had a great bearing in causing aberrant behaviour in these children. Involvement in sexual offences in the form of elopement and/or rape were observed in girls. In boys, stealing was a major reason for being in the observation home. 70% of the delinquents did not belong to proper Bombay. With rapid urbanisation, the problem of juvenile delinquency is bound to increase manifold in the next few decades}
Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Functional illiteracy · Juvenile delinquency · Political science · Population · Poverty · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Urbanization · Demography · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
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| Citation span | 1992 - 1992 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |