Risk of Delinquency in Children with Incarcerated Parents with Emphasis on Family Socialization Dysfunction

With the imprisonment of parents, various functions of the family are disrupted and it becomes difficult for children to adapt to society. Adapting people to social values ​​and norms and successfully entering social life requires having normal and cohesive families. The purpose of this study is to identify the risk dimensions of delinquency in the children of prisoners and to investigate the status of risk factors in the statistical population of the study.

The present study is applied in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of approach, which was done by descriptive-analytical method. Research data were collected by field method using a closed questionnaire. The sample of the present study is the families of prisoners in Evin Prison in Tehran. In this study, risk factors were considered as an independent variable and the risk of delinquency tendency was considered as a dependent variable. To check the normality of the data, a single-sample t-test was used and to calculate the reliability, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated.

More than 80% of the children of prisoners confirm the criminal behavior of their prisoner parent and do not consider it obnoxious and even consider the government and society as the main culprits of the crime committed by their parents. Also, a significant percentage of the statistical sample of the research do not have a suitable and appropriate model to be able to learn social values ​​and norms in the absence of a parent.

The results showed that the imprisonment of parents directly disrupts the social functioning of the family. Violation of social norms by parents leads to pattern of heterogeneity in children and leads to negative sociability of children and adolescents. Thus, according to the results of field research, the imprisonment of parents with impaired family socialization increases the risk of delinquency in the children of prisoners.