The study herein aims to provide useful data intervene to juvenile delinquency in accordance with analyzing misconduct reasons of teenager in Korea using nation-wide teenager panel data examined at National Youth Policy Institute, analyzing actual sta...
The study herein aims to provide useful data intervene to juvenile delinquency in accordance with analyzing misconduct reasons of teenager in Korea using nation-wide teenager panel data examined at National Youth Policy Institute, analyzing actual status of juvenile delinquency along misconduct reasons, and verifying the influence of social relation factors to juvenile delinquency by applying Hirschi's social relation theory.
SPSS 12.0 is used for statistic analysis to achieve the purpose of the study. Factor analysis of Varimax rotation method is carried out to examine the reason of juvenile delinquency, and frequency, percentile, mean and standard derivative (S.D) were speculated to understand the actual status of juvenile delinquency along the reasons. To analyze the relationship between the factors influencing to juvenile delinquency, Pearson's moment correlation is analyzed.
The summary of the results of this study through the analysis are as follows,
Firstly, the reason of juvenile delinquency in Korea is categorized to 4 reasons such as violence delinquency, situation delinquency I, situation delinquency II and asset delinquency, and persuasive power by four reasons showed 54.6%.
Secondly, according to the status of juvenile delinquency, the experience for situation misconduct including alcohol (29.0%), tobacco (10.5%), showed the best rate. Beside, bullying (6.2%) and severe beating of other persons (4.6%) showed a high portion, and absence without notice (6.0%) showed relatively higher portion in situation misconduct I.
Thirdly, to prove the assumption of social relation theory for juvenile delinquency, the result of verification result against the assumption after controlling the gender of teenager, monthly average income of a household indicating economic level of households and household structure are as follows,
Hypothesis I: affection (parent affection, parent supervision, teacher affection, school affection, local community affection) will negatively affect to juvenile delinquency.
According to verification result of affection factor, <Hypothesis 1-1>, 'the number of juvenile delinquency is higher as the affection of parents is lower', showed to negatively influence to the whole misconduct and situation delinquency I, which showed to support the assumption of the research, however, it was declined in violence, situation II and asset delinquency. <Hypothesis 1-2>, 'juvenile delinquency will be higher as parents' supervision is lower', showed to support research theory by which parents' supervision at situation delinquency II such as alcohol and tobacco are negatively influencing to juvenile delinquency, however, it was declined in situation delinquency I and asset delinquency. <Hypothesis 1-3>, 'juvenile delinquency will be higher as the affection of teach is lower', supported research assumption with showing negative influence at the whole misconduct level, however, it was declined at lower region verification.
<Hypothesis 1.4>, 'juvenile delinquency will be higher as school affection (record) is lower', which partly supported research assumption by showing higher situation delinquency (I and II) as the portion within the whole misconduct and situation delinquency I and II are higher (lower score). <Hypothesis 1-5>, 'juvenile delinquency will be higher if local society affection is lower' showed to support research assumption with negatively influence of violence and asset delinquency into local society affection.
Hypothesis 2: Devotion (desire for the education) will negatively affect to juvenile delinquency.
<Hypothesis 2> According to the result of devotion factors, research assumption was declined since the influence of violation delinquency, situation I and II and asset delinquency in <Hypothesis 2-1> which is 'juvenile delinquency will be higher as the desire for education is lower'.
Hypothesis 3: Participation (e.g class participation, studying after school, social activity participation) will negatively affect to juvenile delinquency.
<Hypothesis 3> According to the verification result of participation factors, <Hypothesis 3-1>, 'juvenile delinquency will be higher as the degree of effort for school class is lower', showed to support research assumption since the degree of school class participation effort showed negative effect at juvenile delinquency and the whole lower region. To verify <Hypothesis 3-2>, 'juvenile delinquency will be higher as studying after school is lower', it was divided to private education and self-studying time after school, and research assumption was declined since its result showed not to influence to juvenile delinquency. For <Hypothesis 3-3>, 'juvenile delinquency will be higher if social activities (e.g training activity, volunteer service, community activity) is lower', was verified to be statically related to juvenile delinquency, so that research assumption was declined since it showed opposite result to the assumption.
The summary of practical meaning which social relation factors influence to juvenile delinquency in accordance with research result above is shown below. Within social relation factors, affection and participation factors showed significant influence to juvenile delinquency. This result implicates that co-relationship between parents, teachers, schools and local community should be strengthened for the prevention of juvenile delinquency, and it is needed to strength social relationship through particiaption of conventional activity. To prevent or improve juvenile delinquency, it showed that multi-systematical participation program for parents, teacher, school and local community is needed rather than focusing on teenagers only. More detailed contents are as follows,
Firstly, the relationship between parents affection and supervision and juvenile delinquency which shows the relationship with parents showed negative relationship, so that strengthening the relationship with parents positively influences for the protection of juvenile delinquency. Therefore, intervention to change positive relationship with parents is needed to prevent juvenile delinquency. Especially, in case of drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, the result which the degree of misconduct is lower as the supervision of parents is higher showed the importance of parents' role. To achieve this, parents education program which enables to practice communication method with offsprings, widen the understanding for teenager cultures, and learn management methods for misconduct of teenagers should be provided.
Secondly, negative relationship was examined for the affection from teachers to juvenile delinquency, and weakened social relationship between teachers and teenagers showed to be connected to juvenile delinquency, which shows the necessity of intervention to improve the relationship with teachers. Especially, although it is difficult to improve the relationship with teachers under the circumstance of focusing on entrance examination in Korea, it is needed to change instruction method of teachers from punishment to guidance, and also relationship improving program with students for teachers can be considered to expand the chance for the improvement of relationship between teachers and students with cheering up the communication.
Thirdly, local community affection showed negative effect with violence delinquency and asset delinquency, which shows the necessity of intervention through local community supervision or guidance for the prevention of violence delinquency and asset delinquency which are parted in serious delinquencies.
Fourthly, the result, which teenagers who show high degree of effort for the achievement(score) for study or class in school showed low delinquency, showed the possibility of delinquency prevention through conventional activity, study. In other words, failure of educational achievement under Korean educational circumstance causes severe mental pressure, and weakens the relationship with parents, which is possibly connected to misconducts, so that it is needed to inspire the interest in study, and provide educational circumstance to inspire the achievement for study to prevent juvenile delinquency.