RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Wu, Jiaojiao
T1 A survey of juvenile delinquency in Chengdu, PRC
JF Journal of Exceptional People
YR 2015
VO 4
IS 1
SP 103
OP 116
UL https://jep.actavia.cz/artkey/jep-201501-0010.php
AB To survey the situation and reasons of juvenile delinquency within Chengdu city, further to provide underpinnings of preventing juvenile delinquency for the government. In August 2011, Chengdu City Women's Federation, Chengdu City Intermediate People's Court and Faculty of Education of Sichuan Normal University jointly launched a three-year "A Survey of Juvenile Delinquency in Chengdu" research project by conducting archival analysis of trial data, in-depth interview, questionnaire survey. 410 cases randomly selected from 7 courts within Chengdu city involving 519 juvenile delinquents have been surveyed. Finding of this survey research found typical characteristics of juvenile delinquents including low level of education, obvious gender gap, increasing number of student offenders and main characteristics of juvenile delinquency. Property violation and personal injury are major criminal types, gang crime is the main crime modality, and plenty of problem behaviors have been shown before crime.