A Survey of the Inmates of a Remand Home in Ibadan
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Summary: A Survey of the Ibadan Remand Home was carried out with a view to finding out the prevalent offences among the inmates, the possible socio-medical factors for their deviant behaviour, and the feelings of the offenders about the Remand Home. The common offences were petty stealing, truancy, and wandering. Assault or physical aggression was rare. It was considered necessary to separate the maladjusted children with purely ‘neurotic' symptoms from the delinquents who committed criminal offences. Some of the factors found to be associated with juvenile delinquency among the group studied were family instability, divorce or separation of the parents, children living with distant relations, poor educational record and epilepsy.
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