Psychosocial Factors That Leads Females to Delinquency: The Case of Lideta Sub city Juvenile Rehabilitation Center Adiss Ababa

Abstract

The objective of this study is to assess psychosocial factor associated with criminal behavior of female juveniles. Stratified random sampling was conducted on the Factors that lead Females to delinquency taking all Female juvenile delinquents of AdissAbeba ledeta juvenile rehabilitation center. As a source of population and as a sample the researcher took 30 samples close ended and open ended questioners used to collect data, in addition to this interview also conducted for office workers. The colleted data were analyzed by using table and percentage. From the result most female delinquents live with relatives (33.3%), single parent (33.3%), dropout from schools (50%), physically abused (10%) are some of the factor. Generally psycho and sociological problems are the major causes of female delinquency