A social work study on juvenile delinquency


Mohammad Reza Iravani


We present an empirical study to study the effects of different factors on juvenile delinquency. The investigation distributes 100 questionnaires among people who are involved with crime and analyzes their feedbacks. There are five hypotheses in our survey and we look to see whether family conditions, religion, economical conditions, media and physical and psychological characteristics play important role on juvenile delinquency in Iranian society. The results shows that while family conditions, physical and psychological characteristics play important role on juvenile delinquency, other factors do not statistically have any impact on juvenile delinquency. The study suggests that a better family condition could help reduce juvenile delinquency and people could guide their children through better consultations.


DOI: j.msl.2011.11.009

Keywords: Juvenile delinquency ,Religion and juvenile delinquency ,Media and Juvenile delinquency ,Physical characteristics and Juvenile delinquency ,Economy and Juvenile delinquency

How to cite this paper:

Iravani, M. (2012). A social work study on juvenile delinquency.Management Science Letters -, 2(4), 1403-1408-.


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