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The purpose of the present investigation was to explore the possible links between juvenile delinquent's socialization experience in the family and his tendency to resocialization. Subjects were 215 male juvenile delinquents incarcerated in two correctional institutions in Turkey. Results indicated that the groups ofjuveniles who werefrom broken homes, who experienced separation from family, and who had criminal parents or siblings, reported lower response to resocialization in respect to the measures on relations with family and treatment group when compared to the other groups who did not experience those conditions in the socialization process. Correlational analysis of the juvenile's perception of parental autonomy-control and rejection-acceptance behavior dimensions with a tendency to resocialization produced significant relationshipsfor only the latter one: the more the parents accepted the juvenile the higher the juvenile's tendency to resocialization emerged or vice versa. The implications of these results are discussed.

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Family Background and Resocialization of Turkish Delinquents

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