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Unit 23: Identification, Causes, Problems of Backward and Delinquent Children

(3) Teaching methods and techniques are appropriate for some of the students. They would like Notes
to attend the class, they may develop the habit of truancy. The high work load assignment,
lack co-curricular activites, the examination, strict discipline may cause for delinquency.
4. Physical Constitutional Factors: The physical deformities of a child may be one the reason for
delinquency. The defects of body organs make the child sensitive and emotional.
5. Psychological Factors: Freud 'Psycho-analysis' is the significant factors for delinquency. The mental
retardation development of glands, emotional unstability and mental diseases are the factors of
delinquency.
Causative Factors: These are classified into two major categories:
(A) Primary Factors and (B) Secondary Factors
(A) Primary Factors: Biological and Psychological Factors
(1) Biological Factors:
(a) Inheritance and (b) Constitution defects
(2) Psychological Factors:
(a) Intellectual Seakness (b) Lack of security and affection
(c) Mental disease (d) Emotional Instability
(e) Weak supper ago and (f) Personality trait
(B) Secondary Factors: Social and Environmental Factors
(1) Biological Factors:
(a) Family (b) Society
(2) Environmental Factors:
(a) School Environmental
Review of Causative Factors: Some eminent scholars reveal that causative factors are really
hypotheses, attempting to account for the deviant behaviour in the individual case. William Healy,
in his reasearch on 'delinquency,' set the pattern for this approach and discovered that, in contrast to
their many, general theories of criminal behaviour, delinquency in individual cases is a product of
multiple causative factors.
23.7 Problems of Delinquent Children

• The delinquent children have destructive and aggressive nature, people do not want to talk
them, and do not want to keep any relation with them, so the delinquent children feel lonely.
They are socially "boycott".
• They feel depressed and again do more crimes and destruction.
• They have morel reading and writing disability as compared to other disable people.
• Delinquent children are twice as likely to live in a correctional facility, drug treatment centre or
on the street after leaving school.

The diseases related to sex organs may cause delinquency.

Self Assessment
2. Multiple Choice Questions
Choose the correct option:
(i) .......................... backwardness is due to the various types of physical diseases and defects.
(a) 50% (b) 75% (c) 80% (d) 90%

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