Annual of social work, Vol. 9 No. 2, 2002.
Original scientific paper
FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR DISORDERS OF JUVENILE VIOLENT OFFENDERS IN ZAGREB
Irena Cajner Mraović
Andreja Došen
Abstract
This study focused on the sample of 567 juvenile offenders who committed violent crimes and therefore were sanctioned during the period from January 1, 1985 to December 31, 1998 in Zagreb. The objective of the study was to determine the existence and the kind of differences among family situations between aggressive and non-aggressive examinees. The three hypotheses about existing differences between the above mentioned groups of participants in structure, socio-economic status and pathology of their primary families have been tested using discriminant analysis as multivariant method which is used to determine differences, at latent level, among groups of participants. Since there were three sets of variables, we did two discriminant analyses. The results show that aggressive participants are deprived of adequate parental supervision since their parents have a lot of interpersonal and financial problems.
Keywords
youth; aggressive disorders in behaviour; violent criminal offence; fammily
Hrčak ID:
3522
URI
Publication date:
1.11.2002.
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