Deviance And Crime Case Study
INTRODUCTION
In any human society where accepted behavior modes are laid, deviating from the norm is inevitable (Abotchie, 2008). Deviance and crime are and have always been a danger to the calmness and tranquility enjoyed by members of a community. Beside the gradual moral degeneration which can befall perpetrators when they are embittered with deviance and crime, there arise huge custody, health and economic cost to be borne by a nation full of the issue of crime (Simões, Matos & Batista-Foguet, 2008). For this reason, crime among children has now become one of the important social issues which every nation try to bring under control amidst the glaring evidence that, if the right nurturance is not given to child offenders, they may graduate …show more content…
These communities were chosen for one main reason; they have the highest prevalence of youth crime in the Municipality. A total number of twenty (20) youth in crime were used for the study. Out of the three communities, simple random sampling technique was used to select five (5) youth in crime from Nsuekyir, five (5) from Alata Kokodo and ten (10) from Winneba Junction. Ten respondents from Winneba junction because of the vastness of the area, serves as the center of the Winneba …show more content…
Out of the sampled youth who engage in crime in the Municipality, 8 (40%) mentioned that their highest level of education was SHS, 7 (35%) indicated Vocational School, 4 (20%) said JHS whilst the remaining respondent (5%) said primary school. This goes to mean that none of the youth who engage in crime in the Municipality are uneducated, they all benefitted from one form of formal education or another. Illiteracy cannot therefore be mentioned as one of the reasons why they engaged in youth crime in the Municipality.
Perceived circumstances which leads some youth of the Winneba municipality to be involved in juvenile delinquency
Two main reasons/circumstances were mentioned as being responsible for the youth’s engagement in juvenile delinquency. These are peer pressure and financial challenges. Out of the twenty youth respondents in crime, most of them (about 60%) indicated that they engage in juvenile delinquency owing to financial challenges that they were faced with whilst the remaining said it was due to peer pressure. Other reasons were broken homes, poverty and boredom.
One respondent had this to
In any human society where accepted behavior modes are laid, deviating from the norm is inevitable (Abotchie, 2008). Deviance and crime are and have always been a danger to the calmness and tranquility enjoyed by members of a community. Beside the gradual moral degeneration which can befall perpetrators when they are embittered with deviance and crime, there arise huge custody, health and economic cost to be borne by a nation full of the issue of crime (Simões, Matos & Batista-Foguet, 2008). For this reason, crime among children has now become one of the important social issues which every nation try to bring under control amidst the glaring evidence that, if the right nurturance is not given to child offenders, they may graduate …show more content…
These communities were chosen for one main reason; they have the highest prevalence of youth crime in the Municipality. A total number of twenty (20) youth in crime were used for the study. Out of the three communities, simple random sampling technique was used to select five (5) youth in crime from Nsuekyir, five (5) from Alata Kokodo and ten (10) from Winneba Junction. Ten respondents from Winneba junction because of the vastness of the area, serves as the center of the Winneba …show more content…
Out of the sampled youth who engage in crime in the Municipality, 8 (40%) mentioned that their highest level of education was SHS, 7 (35%) indicated Vocational School, 4 (20%) said JHS whilst the remaining respondent (5%) said primary school. This goes to mean that none of the youth who engage in crime in the Municipality are uneducated, they all benefitted from one form of formal education or another. Illiteracy cannot therefore be mentioned as one of the reasons why they engaged in youth crime in the Municipality.
Perceived circumstances which leads some youth of the Winneba municipality to be involved in juvenile delinquency
Two main reasons/circumstances were mentioned as being responsible for the youth’s engagement in juvenile delinquency. These are peer pressure and financial challenges. Out of the twenty youth respondents in crime, most of them (about 60%) indicated that they engage in juvenile delinquency owing to financial challenges that they were faced with whilst the remaining said it was due to peer pressure. Other reasons were broken homes, poverty and boredom.
One respondent had this to