PREVALENCE AND MANAGEMENT OF DELINQUENCY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ILORIN METROPOLIS, NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE

1.1     BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

It is a general belief that the standard of discipline has fallen greatly in Nigeria Educational Institutions especially in secondary school. Once find this type of complaints published in some of Nigerian daily Newspapers and some have been made know either in Public lectures or on the air (Radio and Television Set) such pronouncement or lecturers and publications house put the blame on students’ delinquencies or this behaviour on home. The home does not concern itself with the academic progress or achievements at the students. For instance, the parents and guidance are not caring about the progress made in school concerning their children and words.

According to Mazi (2000) in the report of the committee on school discipline in Kwara State (1986) parents over indulge their children and that some are too busy to care for their children and that some are too busy to care for their children Asa result at this those types of children are difficult to control when they get to schools. Some parents over pamper their children with money and materials while in school, on the other hands some parents are too poor to meet the demands of their children. This disparity between the rich and poor leads to unwarranted behaviour, which result to indiscipline in youth. This is confirmed by Obasanjo (1989) who blamed meet parents for the tall on morality among the young. According to him children up bring seemed irrelevant matter for meet parents. It is a common phenomenon now a day those children are now left to be brought up in institution that lead commitment to ensure proper us bringing. In the school discipline committee report it was mentioned that the society also cause the delinquencies in the youth. How? The society places value on cash and lace, or luxury materials. The love of fashion and love of enviable influence by the society appeal to the student than the conservation demands of the schools for wearing particular uniforms and obeying school rules and regulations.

According to the Ministry of Education publication (1991), deviance in school may arise mainly form: in-conducive learning and social environment from they grow and develop, behaviours of adult associated with them and who they regards as models apparent abdications of responsibility and duty by parents and guardian as a result of un due pressure negative economy activity such as excessive pursuit of materials wealth high handiness of the part school authority and government in dealing with students breath of law and order, and inflexibility on the of the teachers, school authority and parents in matter relating to the behaviour children generally and especially those of school age. Out (1987) asserted that adequate supply of facilities including consumable such as Libraries, Science Laboratory, Workshop Equipment, Resource person and sport in School resultant Smallness of activities of positively engage student minds and maximally channel there energies to productive ventures may cause deviancy in School.

Deghton (1981) mention some of possible causes of the deviance among secondary students as: frustration, since hostility is most always preceded by frustration. Many student make trouble because of continual failure to reach there goal. There frustration may also be due to lack of acceptance by their classmate. He went further stated the ignorance especially in new situation can lead delinquency. Either because the rows are seen to be generally ambiguous. A certain number of students disobey merely because they are unaware of the rules and regulations. Other point raised by Deighton (1981) as possible causes of deviance among secondary school students are problems from home carried to school and inconsistency of enforcement in school or other agent of authority in the school.

Barry (1987) remarked that home background of a child can cause deviance in schools, for instance children brought up in a tolerant atmosphere at home are often shocked by the attempt to make them be have reasonably in school. They find themselves having to adopt few quite different behaviour patterns. This can have a traumatic effect upon some children which is in itself an incitement to deviance.

The growth of miscommunications media especially the visual ones and decline in censorship has introduced a much wider group to extremes of behaviours which give rise to varieties of deviancy in our secondary schools from the foregoing it could be seen that the courses of Juvenile delinquencies are so uncountable. Therefore this study want to find out the influence/effects of those delinquencies on the academic performance of secondary school students in Ilorin Metropolis.

1.2     STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Delinquency has been an issue that parents guidance and teachers are warned about. Even the government of every society is trying every way to tackle the problem. We have now come to a point in time to know they every agent of socialization (parents, teachers, school mass-media etc.) has a part to play.

The research is therefore specially designed to take into cognizance the factor contributing to delinquent behaviours as perceived by the students in selected secondary school in Ilorin Metropolis. The researcher intends to look into: