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KMID : 0381219820140030029
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Journal of RIMSK
1982 Volume.14 No. 3 p.29 ~ p.41
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A Sociopsychiatric Study on the Tattooed Delinquent Adolescents
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Abstract
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The present study was attempted to examine the relation between tattooing of delinquent adolescent and their motivation of tattooing and its delinquent behavior. The actual number put into the analysed consited of 571 adolescent delinquents (200 tattooed including 191 boys and 9 girls, and 371 nontattooed).
Data were collected through questionnaire randomly and direct individual psychiatric interview, using census method among the population of juvenile correctional institution.
The collected data were analysed by computer, using SPSS program. The Chi-square and T test were adapted statistically.
The results of the study are presented below:
1. The frequency of tattooing among 571 delinquent adolescents was 35.0 percent (male 36.6 %, female 18.0 %), male tattooing delinquent was higher significant than the female. The older, the higher frequency of tattooing.
2. The tattooing frequency of the adolescent recidivist was significantly bisher than the first offenders with tattooing and the more delinqueni adolescent with person- oriented violence, the hi-gher tattooing.
3. The mean age of the first tattooing was 16.6 ± 5.4 years.
It was found that the male delinquents ( 15.7 ± 5.4 years) was tend to be tattooing early as compared with the female (17.0± 1.2 years).
4. Among the various contents of tattoo, letters (49.0%) were most frequently marked, the
order of animals, plants, and love marks were presented respectively.
The recidivism or the felony seem likely to mark animals or love marks.
5. In the body part of tattooing, upper extremities (left upper 55.0%, right upper 20.0%)
were mostly favorite body part of tattooing, the next was multiple tattoo on whole body
part (15.0%) and lower extremities such as legs (4.0%) in this order respectively.
6. The important factors of tattooing were presented by the order of curiosity (23.0 06) , persuation and pressure by peer and older groups, imitation, heroic sense, attractiveness, pledging oneself to loyalty, and pure gang group mark respectively.
Among the important factors, the tattooing by curiosity was the most significantly motivating factor.
The male recidivism or the felony particularly were tended to be tattooing by heroic sense, while the larceny by imitation.
7. The tattooed delinquents had experienced much more frequently cigarette smoking, alcoho. lic drinking, promiscuity, drug abuse, self -injury, and suicidal attempts than the nontattooed, and it was found that the tattooing itself was associated with the above mentioned delinquent behavior such as self injury in particular.
Therefore, it suggested that the previous mentioned delinquent behavior including the tattooing psychodynamically- were interpreted as a meaning of the masochistic rites on the self.
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