| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華管理學院 === 教育社會學研究所 === 87 === In Taiwan, there are some researches which used Hirschi''s social control theory and Gottfredson and Hirschi''s general crime theory as their basic theoretical framework. However, few of them took students in Yunlin and Chiayi area as target group. And the previous empirical researches rarely used complete, systematic statistical methods to test the applicability of the social control theory and general crime theory on the juvenile deviant behavior. Therefore, the study tried to use the data of Yunlin and Chiayi area to test the two theories, and to understand the juvenile deviant behavior in the area.
The study used the method of self-report questionnaire survey. Three junior high schools and three primary schools in Yunlin and Chiayi were selected and they can more or less represent areas of three different urbanization degrees, respectively. For each primary school, two sixth-grade classes were selected among ordinary classes randomly. For each junior-high school, two classes were selected randomly from ordinary classes of each of three grades. There are respectively 222 and 658 cases among primary and junior-high schools who completely filled the questionnaires.
Methods of nested regression model analysis and path analysis were used. And we found that : 1)among those variables related to social control theory, only family attachment were supported when we controlled variables of personal attributes and those variables related to learning theory and strain theory; 2)variables of self-control related to general crime theory were supported when controlled as before; 3)the relations between juvenile deviant behavior and variables of family attachment, school attachment, and beliefs related to social control theory were supported; 4)variables of self-control related to general crime theory have significant influence on juvenile deviant behavior; 5) variables of family attachment, school attachment, involvement, and beliefs related to social control theory can influence on juvenile deviant behavior with variables of self-control as intermediate variable.
Hence, we suppose that it may be appropriate to merge social control theory with general crime theory in order to establish a clearer theoretical model to explain juvenile deviant behavior.
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