Socio-Economic Causes of Juvenile Delinquency: The Case of Addis Ababa Remand Home
| dc.contributor.advisor | Assefa Berihun (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yemsrach Dessalegn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-20T07:03:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-20T07:03:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | One of the major objectives of the study was to investigate the social causes of juvenile delinquency. Accordingly, this study revealed that peer influence is one of the social causes, followed by broken homes (divorce, death of one parent or both), and low family attachment with parents as the major social causes of juvenile delinquency. The other objective of this study was to investigate the economic causes of juvenile delinquency. Accordingly, this study demonstrated that poverty is one of the economic causes of juvenile delinquency, followed by unemployment as the main economic causes of juvenile delinquency. The present study focused on identifying the socioeconomic causes of juvenile delinquency in Addis Ababa Remand Home. The subjects for this study were 13 juvenile delinquents (3 females) between 9 and 17 years of age who were undergoing rehabilitation in the Remand Home. Purposive sampling techniques were used to select the participants. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis by categorizing them into themes. In this study, the researcher discovered that practically all of the delinquents entered the Lideta remand home facility through theft, selling, and using drugs. Keywords: juvenile delinquency, socioeconomic causes, peer influence, broken homes, family attachment, poverty, unemployment, Addis Ababa Remand Home, thematic analysis. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/3639 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.title | Socio-Economic Causes of Juvenile Delinquency: The Case of Addis Ababa Remand Home | |
| dc.type | Thesis |