The present study was intended to examine the relationship between adolescent's sexual violence and its structural. demographic and psychological variables of the family and to establish basic guidline data for preventing adolescent from
conducting
juvenile sex crimes.
Data were collected through questionnaire survey and direct interview. Subjects served for this study consisted of 2.197 adolescents. Including 48 juvenile sex offenders, 709 other misbehavioral delinquents and 1.440 adolescent students in Korea,
sampled from Korean student population and adolescent delinquent population confined in juvenile correctional institutions using random sampling method. Their age ranged between 12 and 21. The actual number of cases put into the analyses was
1.893
including 489 delinquents and 1.404 adolescent students, Data were analysed by CDC-174computer of KAIST, using SPSS program. Statistical method employed were Chi-square test.
@ES The results of this study were as follows:
@EN 1) Of the 757 delinquents, 48 were cases of sexual violence(rape).
Their family structures such as family size and type tended to have significant relationship with juvenile sex violences and other misbehaviors. That is. The extended family type with more than 9 family members including grandparent, parent and
siblings
was significantly related to juvenile sex crimes, whereas other misbehavioral delinquency was significantly related to the nuclear family type of within 3 family members including parent and himself.
2) If both violent sex delinquents and other misbehavioral delinquents had experienced frequent separation with their parents. Their self-reported reasons for separation with their parents were "their own runaway", "poor socio-economic status of
family" and "parental divorce or separation" etc, in the order named.
3) Of all the factors affecting trends in juvenile violent sex behaviors and other misbehaviors, the structural and demographic variables of family including adolescent's ages, religious background, their educational level, and parental ages,
and
education levels seem to exert the greater influence. In the case of sexual delinquents, they and experienced violent sex crimes between 14 and 19 of age(from 2nd grade of middle school to 2nd of high school), at the peak age of 13 to 14, while
other
delinquents had their misbehaviors at the peak of 3rd grade of middle school. On the other hand, juvenile violent sex behaviors were significantly associated with their own and parental belief of the Oriental religion, the lower educational level
of
parents, and the younger age(below 39) or the older age(over 50) of parents, But other misbehavioral delinquents and their parents seem to believe the Occidental religion. Their parental education level also was lower(graduation from middle
school). The
age of other delinquent's parent was ranged between 40 and 49
4) Compared to the respondents involved juvenile sex crimes and other juvenile offends, more parents were clerical or skilled laborers(paternal: 54.2 vs. 48.6 percents: maternal: 37.5 vs. 28.1 percents). Most parents were dissatisfied with their
job
situation. The 1st rank order of parental birth was significantly correlated to their children's sex violent behaviors.
5) There was the tendency for the defective parental child-rearing patterns to exert the great influence upon juvenile sex crimes and/or other misbehaviors. The more were maternal attitudes punishment-oriented constrict disciplined, restricted
and
conservative toward their children, the higher occurred their children's sex violent behaviors. On the other hand, the more were paternal attitudes self-centered restrictedly ruled and punishment-oriented toward their children, the higher
occurred
their
children's other misbehaviors.
6) The parent's marital bond and the psychological climate of family presented the significant relationship with juvenile sex criminal behaviors and other misbehaviors. Marital bond of dominant mother-weak father and parental overprotection was
significantly correlated to juvenile sex crimes. Maternal indifference toward their children due to being busy working and paternal weakness exerted strong influence on their children's sex violent behaviors. Therefore, childrens tended to avoid
to
closely contact with their parents, and to be dissatisfied with undesirable family environment with uncooperative interaction among family members.
On the other hand, in the case of other misbehavioral delinquents, their parent's marital bond was more marital skew. Therefore their misbehaviors were significantly correlated to parental overrejection and alienated parent-child relationship.
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