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Predicting Youth Delinquency : Semi-Structured Interview Study Exploring the Experiential Frame of Juveniles and Investigating Variables that Predict the Engagement in Delinquency
Roever, Judith (2024) Predicting Youth Delinquency : Semi-Structured Interview Study Exploring the Experiential Frame of Juveniles and Investigating Variables that Predict the Engagement in Delinquency.
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| Abstract: | Youth delinquency poses a constant concern to societal safety and presents a significant risk to the healthy development of young people. A complex interplay of individual, environmental, and social factors influences youth9s likelihood of engaging in delinquent behaviour. This article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the experiential frame of delinquent juveniles and those at risk and investigates factors that predict engagement in delinquency. The variables of analysis are attitudes and beliefs regarding social norms, quality and stability of interpersonal relationships, parental supervision and monitoring, and coping with negative experiences and stressors. Further, effective strategies and approaches that can counteract certain behavioural patterns and internalized beliefs are examined, concerning aspects that are of value and should be regarded in potential intervention designs. Within semi-structured interviews, perspectives and experiences of a diverse group of people were gathered and analysed. The final sample consisted of five participants who work closely together with juveniles, including a researcher, psychologist, youth probation officers and intensive pedagogical teachers. The results indicate that a dysfunctional familial environment as well as peer groups and individual aspects including low self-regulation skills and high levels of impulsivity are the predominant predictors of delinquency. Thus, engagement in delinquency is an expression of compounded experiences and dispositions, reflecting the deficiencies and needs of young people. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/102806 |
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