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On the influences of victim experiences upon the later juvenile delinquency
1976 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 12-20
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1976 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 12-20
Although students of crime and delinquency and the practitioners of the correctional education know the importance of victim experiences in the course of the formation of delinquent readiness, there are few studies intended to understand the relationship between victim experiences and later delinquency in criminal sociology, criminal psychology, and victimology. So we attempted to make clear the way how the victim experiences influenced upon the later delinquent behavior, considering the way the fundamental society for juveniles coped with their victim experiences.
Subjects were the inmates who were consigned to Yamaguchi Juvenile Detention and Classification Home during 1974, 1 to 1975, 3. Of the total inmates during the term, 60 male and 2 female juveniles had experienced victim once or more. These 62 inmates were given a fact-finding and ecological questionaire regarding the occurrence situation of the victim. And we took document method through the juvenile records of the Home.
The main results were as follows:
(1) When juveniles had not formed the delinquent readiness before the victim experience, the experience did not directly influence to the formation and fixation of delinquent readiness.
(2) In case juveniles had formed the delinquent readiness before the victim experience, the relation of victim experience to later delinquency was able to divide into two subtypes; the direct relation type and the no relation type. In the former case, the victim experience functioned to reinforce the delinquent readiness, to deepen “Delinquent Depth”, to change the delinquent means, or to correct the delinquent readiness. And there were many cases which victim experiences did not influence the later delinquency.
(3) The function of victim experience in the later delinquent behavior was related with the way of the fundamental society for juveniles coping with their victim experiences.
As a whole, we were obliged to propose only hypothetically the frame work to study the relationship between victim experience and the later delinquency. We will study each type more detail by interviewing the juvenile delinquents intensively.
