Impact of Domestic Violence upon Juvenile Delinquent at Correctional Institutions in Baghdad City

Abstract

A descriptive analytical study was design utilized to assess the level of domestic violence among juvenile delinquents. The study was carried out through the period from 27 December 2016 to 12 September 2017. The study instruments include 3 parts the first one contained Juvenile Delinquent socio-demographic characteristics, second Part include items related to violence, the thired part is comprised of 75 items which concerned with the Psychological security. The data collection was carried out from period from 22th of February 2017 to March 30th 2017 in Correctional Institutions for Juvenile Delinquent. The data were analyzed by using spss through the application of descriptive statistics analyze that include, frequency, percentage, mean and the infrerntial statistics analysis such as (chi-square). The finding of the study have revealed that that; (46%) of samples are from group (18–20) years old, (35.0%) of the juvenile delinquents have moderate level of psychological security, the highest percentage (17.0%) of the sample are females, with high level of Psychological Security, (29.0%) of the juvenile delinquents have high level of physical violence.(46.0%) of the juvenile delinquents have high level of emotional violence.