Differential Risk Levels of Negative Factors and their Complexity Regarding Juvenile Delinquency among Adolescents from Risky Families

• In Event: Unpacking the Social-Contextual Correlates of Youth Violence Over Time

Abstract

This study aims to examine which are the risk factors for juvenile delinquency and violent offences among adolescents who are raised in risky and neglecting families and moreover to determine whether the well-known risk factor for juvenile delinquency – neglect in it's different types, is the most serious threat comparing to other risk factors that do not necessarily derive from situations of maltreatment. Data that has been collected among 201 adolescents from neglecting families that are under the care and supervision of the welfare office in twelve cities in Israel. Findings reveal that educational neglect, emotional neglect and neglect in supervision function as risk factors in their different levels of expression along with positive and negative relations between the parent and the child. It was also found that the most risky factor for juvenile delinquency are:
high parental emotional involvement and over-protectiveness towards the child and at the same time the teenagers perception of the parent as un-supportive.

Authors

• Limor Yehuda, Western Galilee College

• Yaakov Reuven, Western Galilee College