Does Broken-Home Family Contribute to Drugs Abuse in Correctional the Most?

Abstract

Drug abuse in Indonesia is in the alert of the stage. Eradication efforts have been stepped up such as tightening security in border areas, transportation transit points such as airports and ports. The data shows that the number of narcotics cases in Indonesia is very large. In the last four years, there has been a surge in the number of convicts for narcotics cases in Indonesia. The increase was 84%, from 62,694 people in 2015 to 115,418 people in 2018. The attention of parents and families has an impact on the abuse and distribution of narcotics. Abuse of narcotics can occur because of opportunities when parents are busy, less harmonious family relationships, lack of love/lack of parental attention, broken-home families, and uncomfortable conditions in the house. Having a disharmonious family has a 6.179 times greater risk of being a drug abuser than people/adolescents who have a harmonious family. The driving factors for the narcotics crime, both demographically (personal data, family background, and criminal background) are important in the framework of fostering narcotics convicts in correctional, especially concerning broken-home families. The research question is does broken-home family contribute to drugs abuse in correctional the most?. This research uses a descriptive-analytical quantitative approach that produces a description of the research object or variables and the relationship between research variables. There is a positive correlation between the social background and psychological background of the offender, including gender, age, ethnic background, social status, mental health, education level, occupation, family background, and religion. The results showed that marital status, in this case, the broken-home family did not contribute significantly to narcotics abuse because it had a p-value of 0.025 <0.25 and a p-value of 0.046 <0.05, and it did not include risk factors that influence abuse illicit trafficking of narcotics in correctional institutions. was about 3.1%.