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Unit 22: Backward and Delinquent Children: Definition, Types, Characteristics

(2) Temperamental Delinquency: Temperamental delinquency of certain physiological activities. Notes
For example it is found that girls may steal the things during their m.c. days.
(3) Simple Delinquency: Simple delinquency is the result of the conflict between the need of child
and the home, school or society conditions. It is also known as anti-social behaviour. The main cause
may be the poor environment, in which the child is living.
(4) Reaction Delinquency: Reaction delinquency, as its name suggests, arise from the reactions of
the children against the society when the child thinks that he is the victim of the society, he revolts
and tries to break the rules and conventions of the existing society. For this type of delinquency the
child should be guided very carefully and psychological.
(5) Psychoneurotic Delinquency: "This type of delinquency is created on account of the expression
in anti-social manner of the repressed tendencies. These repressions occur on account of resentment."
For example repression of sex urge or instinct may develop the tendency of truancy or telling lie or
stealing etc. For psycho-neurotic delinquency the teachers and parents should refer their children to
some clinical psychologists.
(6) Aggressive Tendency: The mode of attack may be physical aggression damaging school property
Torturing, committing suicide and forgery.

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Other Classification of Delinquency: The following are the other categories.
(1) Aggressive and hostile basis with some persons, institutions, objects, elder, birds and animals
and may be with self.
(2) Standard basis—may be of four types (a) Institutionalized (b) Offended at large (c) Habit basis
(d) Individual standard.
(3) Basis of Individual standard—Individual and group.
(4) Habit basis-First offended and habitual offended.
(5) Truancy from school, and running from home.
Nowadays, psychiatrist has recognised two types of reactions that are different both in terms of
prognosis and management.
(1) Dissocial Reaction: Under this type of reaction, the children are brought up in a normal or immoral
home or social environment. Their behaviour is in conformity with that small community although
they are unacceptable to the society at large, for example, the children of gypsies, migrant or criminal
tribes. Children's personality development is influenced by distorted values of a special subculture.
Here the children are capable or establishing enduring emotional attachments and loyalties.
(2) Psychopathic Reaction: The children in the second category have poor ego development and
even poorer development of super ego. They are incapable of forming stable emotional relationships.
They have no insight or foresight and they cannot profit from past experiences. They show poor
control and seek gratification of immediate desires. Most of them are refractory to all forms of
punishment. These children tend to use other human beings as 'pawns' or 'toys.'
The second group cases have constitutional or genetic defects. There are some behavioral disturbances
of children that are also seen in adult psychopaths like truancy, alcoholism, drug addiction, stealing,
burglary and sexual promiscuity. In 1951, the International of Union of Child Welfare especially
recommended the following categories of offences (by children) for investigation: Stealing from home,
persistent telling of lies, wandering from home, cruelty to animals and other children, reputed truancy,
setting fire and sexual offences etc. Of these setting fire and sexual offences are not so commonly
reported in India.
There may be very thin line of demarcation between deviance and delinquency because if effective
interventions do not offer at appropriate stages, there is every like hood of a deviant turning into a

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