Picture 4: high school students are being escorted and punished after committing gang-fight.
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H. The Dominancy of Gangs on Juvenile Delinquency
The questionnaires given to 209 students were classified to gang-member and non-gang-member students both male and female— 43 male and 34 female
respondents were gang member. To indicate the dominancy of gangs on juvenile delinquency, the writer analyzes the questionnaires filled out by gang-member
students concerning their perception on how often they break school rules with gang or gang members.
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Table 6 : Distribution of gang-member students’ perception on the frequency of their
breaking school rule with gang or gang members.
Male Female Gang-Member
Students’ Perception
Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage
I often break school rule with gang or
gang-members 33 77 27 79
I don’t often break school rule with
gang or gang- members
10 23 7 21
Total 43 100 34 100
The table shows that 23 male students and 21 of respondents female students do not fight against school rules because of gang pressure while 77 male
students and 79 of them female students stated that they often break them along with their friends. That is to say that the majority confessed their involvement in
breaking rules were influenced by gang or gang members and it means gang dominates juvenile delinquency.
I. The Handling of Delinquency Caused by Gangs
The result of writer’s interview with counselors regarding with how to handle delinquency caused by gang motives is according with guidance and counseling
methods namely by group counseling and individual counseling according with the type of problems because in implementing guidance and counseling the counselors
will firstly identify the problem, do diagnosis, do prognosis, give treatment, evaluate, and finally do referral.
If both methods do not work well in handling students, the counselors will conduct case conference and home visits. Lastly they will not be responsible to who
are not willing to be guided and corrected; it means the students would be dropped out of school.
Chapter V Conclusion and Recommendations
A. Conclusion
Based on the result of this study, the following conclusions can be drawn.
1. Every school recognized the existence of gang there.
2. The factors of gang appearance may vary such as: Making a group,
possessing similar interest and talent such as: sport soccer, volleyball, and basket ball, dance or art, providing prestigious position among other
students, providing safety, strengthening dominance among other students, obtaining more power, causing someone to fear, sharing common social
status, fighting against or breaking school rule and so on. But, unfortunately, it is factored by the bad motives,
3. The motives why students join in gang may also vary such as: being
forced by friendsfriends’ pressure, being able to share common interest and talent, willing to make same identity, having a group to protect,
sharing common hobby and needs, having a need to be accepted in a group and so on.
4. The types of delinquency gang mostly affected are being off school
93.80, being off class 80, smoking 79.90, bothering other students 78.50, playing hooky 76, bullying 60, gang-fight
58, and saying something embarrassing 45. 5.
The existence of gang had impacts on school including school itself and students’ performance, and on society including society itself, gang
members’ family and themselves. 6.
The appearance of gang led to the frequency of juvenile delinquency appearance. That is to say that gang dominated delinquency and play bad
role on students involved.
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