Intellectual Grooming and Responsiveness: A Remedial Measures towards Curbing Juvenile Delinquency among Children in Pakistan

Abstract

In present era surveys of social behavior in society suggest a variety of behavioral expression. The family is the foundation of human society. Children who are rejected by their parents and society grow up at the greatest risk of becoming delinquent. One of the big anti-social behaviors worldwide is juvenile delinquency. This situation has become worse in Pakistan due to poverty and illiteracy. This paper attempts to unearth the comparison of causes of juvenile delinquency between male and female teenagers of Karachi, Pakistan. This research is descriptive, exploring the existing attribute and behavior of crime level in children of the society. Interviews have been taken as a survey instrument for collecting data from local central jail, based on 20 questions. The population consists of ten boys and ten girls (teenagers). Data has been collected from superintended Jail as well to see the sights of prison environment. Juvenile delinquency is a result of distraction between social and psychological factors of child upbringing. After the in-depth analysis child labor, trading and money dealing from early age make them greedy. Parental unemployment and destructive attitudes encourage and promote juvenile crime. Lack of readiness and anger towards life complexities also lead to negative short term outcomes including, peer and teacher rejection, failures and eventual dropout causes delinquency acts.