NCJ Number
40569
Date Published
1976
Length
155 pages
Annotation
A STUDY ATTEMPTING TO IDENTIFY FACTORS SERVING AS DETERRENTS TO JUVENILE CRIME AS PERCEIVED BY JUVENILES.
Abstract
A TOTAL OF 96 ADOLESCENTS, 48 DELINQUENT AND 48 NON-DELINQUENT, PARTICIPATED IN THIS STUDY. THE SUBJECTS WERE GIVEN A STRUCTURED INTERVIEW WHERE THEY RESPONDED TO QUESTIONS ASKING WHAT THEY THOUGHT WERE DETERRENTS TO CRIME. DEMOGRAPHIC DATA WERE ALSO TAKEN. IN TESTING THE HYPOTHESES THERE WERE NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES FOUND CONCERNING PERCEIVED DETERRENTS BETWEEN DELINQUENTS AND NON-DELINQUENTS, BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES, BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES, OR BETWEEN ADOLESCENTS OF VARIOUS SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS. THREE MAJOR CONSEQUENCES RECOMMENDED BY THE FINDINGS SUGGEST: MONETARY COMPENSATION TO BE RENDERED BY PARENTS OR THROUGH PARENTAL CHANNELS; EXPOSURE, OR SOME TYPE OF RESULTANT PUBLICITY FOR JUVENILES FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMES, AND; REPARATION THROUGH A PROGRAM OF SUPERVISED WORK. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)...TWH