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ABSTRACT
This study focuses on the major associated factors sustaining and responsible for an increasing juvenile delinquent behaviour among secondary school students. The study was guided with three research objectives; determine the extent to which family socio-economic status result to juvenile delinquent behaviors among secondary school students. examine the extent to which school environment result to juvenile delinquent behaviors among secondary school students., find out the extent to which peer group influence juvenile delinquent behaviors among secondary school students. The findings shows that home and family as well as peers influence pose greater negative influence to delinquent behaviour. The study recommended the following; The government at all levels should not only provide free basic education but also take practical steps to ensure that the education they give is truly and completely free, qualitative, and necessarily compulsory. Legislating and effecting punitive measures on education stakeholders that default will enhance success in this direction. School administrators should step-up efforts to curb every form of truancy and loitering in and around their respective schools so that students may be disciplined to stay put in schools and pay attention to their lessons. Parents and guardians should not neglect their responsibility to provide for members of their family irrespective of whether they are related by blood or by adoption. The family as an agent of socialization should be educated on the psychological effect of broken homes on juvenile’s behavior. The role of juvenile justice institutions should be extended and strengthened to monitor juvenile behaviors in schools.
