The Impact of Emotional Challenges of Family on Children’s Delinquency (Field Study in the Rehabilitation Center of Kerman Province)

Family relationships are a major determinant of youths’ behavior throughout their lives. Many studies have drawn on the hypothesized relationship between delinquency and family relations, and a large number of such studies indicated the presence of family challenges at different social levels leading to a wide range of behavioral abnormalities and delinquencies. However, the present study was conducted considering the special and critical situation of children, the effect of internalized cultural n their behavior as adults, and the fact that success in eradicating or mitigating a problem depends on identification of its causes. Regarding the special geographical position of Kerman province with respect to being located in a drug transit route, this study has been conducted for the first time in Kerman Correction and Rehabilitation Center. This research, focusing on the impact of family’s emotional challenges on children’s delinquency, studied 56 boy clients at the center through in-depth interviews with all the children in the center. The primary data were collected and analyzed by SPSS software. The research findings, while confirming the impact of emotional problems on children’s delinquency, refer to the necessity of paying attention to this impact more than ever before.

Child, Delinquency, Correction and Rehabilitation Center, Emotional Problems