Juvenile delinquency is the result of multiple factors such as individuals, families, schools and society. Family factors are the main cause of juvenile delinquency. Now we will analyze the family reasons of juvenile criminals:
1. Family factors that influence juvenile crime.
The family is the primary place for a person to live and grow. The family environment directly determines and affects whether a person can grow up healthily. A good family environment will breed a healthy psychology and a sound personality, providing the necessary conditions for its healthy growth. On the contrary, a bad family environment will lead to personality defects and behavioral deviations, which are often important factors leading to illegal crimes.
1. The family structure is broken.
Due to the rapid changes in our country's society, the family, as the basic unit of society, has experienced a double imbalance in family structure and parental concepts, resulting in the emergence of a large number of broken families or single-parent families caused by divorce, separation or migration. Have a significant impact on the behavior and moral character of young people. Single-parent families cause teenagers to lose some aspect of their parents' education that combines strength and softness, causing these teenagers to have distorted or deformed personalities, increasing difficulties in psychological adjustment, and prone to problems in emotions, moral character, personality, learning and other aspects. Moreover, unlike two-parent families, single-parent families have strict supervision over their children and often neglect their children's education, making them susceptible to negative social factors and embarking on a criminal path.
2. Family relationships deteriorate.
The relationship between family members refers to both the relationship between parents and the relationship between parents and children. In a family, if the parents' marriage is not harmonious and conflicts often occur, it is easy for the children to have deviant behaviors. Because an unhappy marriage often leaves parents with no time to take care of their children's affairs and lose control over their children. The weakening or disappearance of this control power is one of the main reasons for adolescent deviance, and has a greater negative impact on children than parental divorce. big. If teenagers can have good communication with their parents at home and maintain good emotions, they will stay away from crime; if they are abandoned or ignored by their parents and cannot find a sense of security or emotional satisfaction and comfort at home, they may run away from the family and spend time in the family. Seek support and recognition from society.
3. The family atmosphere is bad.
Family atmosphere has a primary impact on the development of individual personality of adolescents. It may have a good influence on the formation of healthy personality of adolescents, but may also cause personality defects in adolescents. The mental health and interpersonal relationships of teenagers are closely related to the family atmosphere. The happiness of life in the family, parental care, and satisfaction with parents all have an impact on teenagers. If parents can give their children adequate care, it will help their children reduce their deviant behavior. On the contrary, if parents are often hostile to their children and there are constant conflicts between parents and children, their children will be more prone to deviant behavior. Parental care can meet the psychological needs of children and become a safe haven for them. In a family that is often full of quarrels and fights, children do not enjoy the love of their parents and the warmth of the family. Instead, they only have fear, worry and disappointment. Children in such families are often introverted, withdrawn, have low self-esteem, and have unhealthy mental health. They can easily run away from home to escape this kind of family atmosphere. Once they are affected by negative factors, they will embark on a criminal path. For example, the teenage defendant Guan's parents had a discordant relationship and would quarrel and fight whenever they met. Later, Guan ran away from home and participated in theft.
4． Bad behavior by family members.
Criminologists have suggested that parents with antisocial tendencies are particularly likely to use inappropriate parenting methods to educate their children. The reason why children born to such parents will develop similar behaviors is because they have suffered from Caused by improper upbringing by parents. In the process of interacting with others, teenagers can learn certain behaviors of others through observation and imitation.
Parents are their children’s first teachers and role models for their children to follow. Family tradition and tutoring have a subtle influence on their children’s psychology and behavior.
The so-called "the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked" and "the one who is close to vermillion is red, and the one who is close to ink is black", the bad habits and immoral and illegal behaviors of parents and other family members have a negative impact on poor identification ability, strong imitation ability, weak will, and inexperience in the world. It will have a direct negative impact on the underage children of such families, leading to a high crime rate among children in such families.
5． Inappropriate discipline.
Parents are their children’s guardians and responsible for education. Parents’ education methods and attitudes are crucial to the healthy growth of their children. A good education method helps to cultivate good behavior in children. Being too indulgent or strict will affect the normal growth of children. If parents can play a good role in supervision, they will be able to reduce their children's contact with delinquent teenagers, thereby avoiding the occurrence of criminal behavior. The more parents support and encourage their children and the stricter their requirements, the less likely their children will engage in deviant behavior. Doting and permissiveness and rough beating and scolding may be the two most common ways that parents in our country discipline their children. Parents unilaterally demand more from their children, but fail to lead by example. They only focus on their children's material life, but fail to take into account their children's psychological needs; they demand obedience from their children by beating and scolding, but fail to communicate well with their children; They require their children to follow the rules in everything, but fail to give them trust and support. They only know how to exercise authority and orders, but do not give them any space for autonomy. This kind of family environment that combines pampering, indulgence, violence and abuse has become a breeding ground for juvenile delinquency.
6. The children are left unsupervised or poorly supervised.
Some people compare children to saplings, which need a gardener’s fertilization, watering, and branch management. Without a gardener’s management, the saplings will wither, lean branches, and get insects. Without the care, education, and control of their parents, children will be psychologically lonely and hopeless; physically they will lack nutrition and have no medical treatment for their illnesses, which affects their healthy growth; they will be emotionally indulgent and dissatisfied; and behaviorally they will be unrestrained and unruly. Think about it and let it go. After the implementation of the joint production contract responsibility system in rural areas, a large number of surplus labor went out. Coupled with the low prices of agricultural products in recent years, some farmers simply abandoned their farmland and went to cities to make a living. Most of them leave their underage children at home, some entrust them to relatives and friends to take care of them, and some simply let their children live independently. Children live in an environment without care, education, and management. They make careless friends, are tempted by Internet cafes, and behave casually. Therefore, it is not accidental that they turn to the road of crime. Unsupervised children are more likely to commit crimes than children from single-parent families and those with discordant family relationships.
In short, with the rapid changes in today's society, especially the changes in families, the control of teenagers by the entire society is gradually weakening, and the problem of juvenile delinquency is intensified based on this social change. Although the prevention of juvenile delinquency needs to be carried out from all levels of society, it must first start from the family.