NCJ Number
150613
Journal
Reports of the National Research Institute of Police Science Volume: 34 Issue: 1 Dated: (July 1993) Pages: 34-44
Date Published
1993
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This study explored the relationship between difficulties experienced by a sample of 1,430 Japanese junior high school students (736 boys and 694 girls) and their involvement in delinquency.
Abstract
The problem areas examined in this study related to school achievement, relationships with parents, anxiety over social and academic issues, and experience of serious illness or hardship. In general, students seemed to experience the greatest difficulties between their first and second year of junior high school. Self-reported delinquency was measured by involvement in 15 types of law-breaking and school misbehaviors. The most frequently reported types of delinquent behavior included drinking, breaking school regulations, truancy, loitering in town with friends late at night, and smoking cigarettes. Involvement in these activities also increased between the first and second year of junior high school. The correlation between the two types of behaviors examined here became stronger in each school grade. 8 tables, 1 figure, and 1 appendix