Vol. 2025 No. 2 (2025)
Articles

Empirical study on the influencing factors of adolescent recidivism

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  • Young-ae Lee,
  • Woo-sung Jung
Young-ae Lee
Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 03977, South Korea
Woo-sung Jung
Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 03977, South Korea

Published 25-03-2025

Keywords

  • Adolescent crime,
  • Low self-control,
  • Real-world social treatment,
  • Family functioning

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How to Cite

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Y.- ae Lee and W.- sung Jung, “Empirical study on the influencing factors of adolescent recidivism”, The Young Thinker's Rev., vol. 2025, no. 2, pp. 20–27, Mar. 2025, doi: 10.62852/ytr/2025/144.

Abstract

Individual, family, and society are the three main factors influencing adolescent recidivism. By employing in-depth interviews to develop a questionnaire on "real-world social treatment" affecting adolescent recidivism, and combining it with the commonly used "low self-control" and "family functioning" scales in adolescent crime measurement, a survey was conducted among 49 incarcerated adolescents who had reoffended. After statistical analysis of the survey data, it was found that the factors of "low self-control" and "real-world social treatment" significantly influenced adolescent recidivism, while the factor of "family functioning" had no significant impact. There is a certain correlation between family socioeconomic status and the factor of "real-world social treatment." Changing the situation of "real-world social treatment" can influence the psychology of adolescent recidivism.

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