The Causes of Delinquency Among Children in Conflict with the Law: An Input for Policy Intervention

Abstract

One generally accepted societal issue around the globe is the increasing incidence of juvenile delinquency. This caused the urgent conduct of studies to support the idea of delinquency prevention and to mitigate youth misbehavior. Hence, this study assessed the causes of delinquency encountered by the Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL) at a certain regional rehabilitation center in the Philippines. The findings of the study are hoped to be of paramount input for policy intervention. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to treat and analyzed the gathered data. Respondents of this study were the 34 CICL who currently undergo the rehabilitation program. This study found out that the primary causes of delinquency encountered by the respondents are poverty, broken home, peer influence, social media, and vices. Thus, the conduct of seminar awareness and physical activities program for the youth as well as to discourage minors who used to spend so many hours immersed in social media.