CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Deviant and delinquent behaviour is a big problem in our society today. Some years ago, Egyptians priest carried on a stone our earth is degenerated, children no longer obey their parents. (Johnson, 1995). The attention of different people has been drawn to the increase in deviant and delinquent behaviour among students in Emotan Girls Grammar School. Going through the Nigeria daily newspapers and listening to radio and television, we hear a twist of deviant and delinquent causes being attributed to Emotan girl’s grammar school of today. Gone are the days where student’s today pride being in school strives for excellence in class work and looked to the future ambitiously quite and innocent for their ages. It is not so these days.
People involved in the upbringing of children have noticed a variety of behaviour ranging from simple vices like falsifying age to taking alcohols that will lead them to naughtiness. Incident of anti-social behaviour are on the increase in Emotan girls grammar school, some of these include students attacking teaching, burning and destroying of school properties and attempting to rape their female counterparts etc. increase in the occurrence of these deviant and delinquent act is now causing a lot of concern for parents, teachers and social workers who have the responsibility of bringing up these children. This implies that the cause of deviant and delinquent act in Emotan girls grammar school has to be sought and the necessary steps have to be taken in preventing it.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The decision to carryout a study on the causes of deviant and delinquent behaviour has been inspired by the investigators experience as a teacher. In school there are usually a case of students involving in stealing, truancy, smoking of India hemp etc. the importance of the students in the national development cannot be over emphasized, but when the students who are supposed to build the nation engage in various vices and crimes what hope has the nation. There is no doubt that the behaviour of these students has adverse effect on them and the students around them. Therefore the problem of this study focuses on the following questions:
1. What influence does social economic factor have on deviant and delinquent behaviour of the students?
2. Does television view cause students to be deviant
3. Is there any relationship between peer group pressure and deviant and delinquency?
4. What influence does parents behaviour have on deviant and delinquent behaviour of students
5. Does emotional deprivation cause students to be deviant?