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Socioeconomic Factors in Adolescent Delinquency

Prof. of Preventive & Social Medicine, Grant Medical College, Bombay, India

N.S. Shenvi

Prof. of Preventive & Social Medicine, Grant Medical College, Bombay, India

[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}.

International Social Work, Vol. 28, No. 1, 21-29 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/002087288502800103


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