The attitudes of high school adolescent toward crime and risk factors

Abstract

Objective: In adolescence, where development and change are experienced intensively, there is a greater risk of criminal behavior. So this study was planned to determine the suicidal attitudes and the risk factors for suicidal attitudes of healthy adolescents between 14-18 years of age. Method: The research was conducted with the participation of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18 who were studying at 9 schools selected as representative schools. The Personal Information Form and Attitudes Against Crime were used as data collection tools. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics were obtained from the non-parametric tests Kruskal Wallis Test and to determine the difference between groups Mann-Whitney U. Results: Adolescents participating in the survey were identified 58,5% (n=857) were male, 29.7% (n=435) 17 age, %35,7% (n=523) industrial had their education in vocational schools. Against crime attitudes with gender (z=-4,958 p=0,000), age (KW=14,354 p=0,006), the common type of school education (KW=81,615 p=0,000), parents' educational status (KW=41,675 p=0,000; KW=32,730 p=0,000), family income level (KW=15,193 p=0.001), attitude towards parents and adolescents (KW=41,640 p=0,000), the presence of the convicted individual in the family (KW=11,837 p=0,008), wrong behaviour of the family as a result of the penalty to adolescents (z=-3,745 p=0,000), the level of academic achievement of adolescents (KW=18,426 p=0,000), disciplinary investigations at school passed (z=-6,103 p=0,000) with friends and their incidence in incorrect behavior (KW=83,033 p=0,000) between the statistically significant relationship has been identified. Discussion: The adolescents who is male, were oppressed and indifferent to family attitudes towards them, whose family debates were frequent and who were subjected to punishment with violent content and who were convicted of fathers in the family, low parental education levels and wrong behavior with their friends were more likely to approve of criminal behavior. It is necessary to raise awareness and protect the family, school and peer characteristics that cause inappropriate attitudes towards crime behavior and create risk.