E. Types of Delinquency Gang Mostly Affect
Types of delinquency may vary in every country. Eldofonso characterize school delinquents with the categories
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below: 1.
The academic delinquent — a minor who is not working to fill capacity in school. 2.
The behavioral delinquent — a boy or a girl who is unable to respond to demands made upon himher by hisher teachers or is continually involved in altercations
with his peers. 3.
The mentally or physically handicapped child — a child unable to compete with his class mates due to severe emotional or physical handicaps, thereby causing
him to act out in a hostile, unacceptable manner.
The questionnaires were given to 209 students regarding with their perception on types of delinquency gang or gang members affect. The table below will show the
most frequent delinquencies to the lowest ones. In this type of questionnaires, the respondents were recommended to fill more than one checklist based on their
experience related to types of delinquency gang mostly affects.
Table 3 : Distribution of students’ perception regarding with types of delinquency
gang or gang members affect.
Frequency F Percentage P
Total No
Type of delinquency
Significant Not at all Significant Not at all
F P
1. Being off Class 163
46 80
20 2. Being off School
196 13
93.80 6.20
3. Playing Hooky
159 50
76 24
4. Smoking 167
42 79.90 20.10
5. Drinking
Disallowed Drink 21 188 10
90 6. Using
drugs 32
177 15.30 84.70
7. Having Free sex 19
190 9
91 8. Bullying
125 84
60 40
9. Gang-Fight 122
87 58.40 41.60
10. Bothering other
Students 164 45
78.50 21.50
209 100
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Edward Eldefonso. Law Enforcement and The Youthful Offender, Canada: John Wiley Sons, Inc. 1973, Second Edition, p. 67.
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11. Saying
Something Embarrassing
92 115 45 55
12. Contempting
Teacher 18 191
8.60 91.60
The table above indicates that the types of delinquency gang or gang members mostly often affect 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.
Picture 1: Students are on tract to commit gang-fight.
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It also indicates that drinking disallowed drink 10, having free sex 9, and contempting teachers 8.60 are the lowest percentage related to delinquency gang
or gang members affect, but it doesn’t mean we ignore their existence because even they are the lowest percentage; they are the most riskily unexpected acts among
school, family, and society. According to the writer’s interview with counselors, they declared that students who committed them would be dropped out of school.
The highest attention should be given to preventing the delinquencies, to minimizing involvement of students in it, and to reintegrating delinquents into the
community, normal community.
Picture 2: students are hookying with friends.
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Because we know that adolescence is a period when students are willing to try something new without considering whether is good or bad for him or other people.
As Enung Fatimah mentioned in her book, she stated that adolescents commonly seem to have the characteristics below:
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1. Concerns which take a grip on adolescents. They have some will or desire which
is not always served.
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Writer’s private documentation.
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Enung Fatimah, Psikologi Perkembangan Perkembangan Peserta Didik, Bandung: Pustaka Setai, 2006, pp. 172-173.
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2. Personal conflict which often causes confusion either on themselves or other
people. 3.
Desire to try anything they do not know; they are often willing to do what adults are doing.
4. Fantasy, illusion, or imagination usually disrupts them.
5. Being fond of grouping-activities. Adolescents could find a way out of their
problems and tense by gathering and doing an activity together.
Concerning with types of adolescent’s needs; the needs are classified into the following division:
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1. Organic needs; such as eating, drinking, breathing, and having sex.
2. Emotional needs; such as getting sympathy or admission of others.
3. Need of achievement which develops for it’s impelled to upgrade their own
potential and to show their psychophysical ability. 4.
Need of defense
Some problems faced by adolescents regarding with their need are explained below:
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1. Efforts to change childish behavior and attitude into adult behavior and attitude.
2. Difficulties to accept physical changes; adolescents often commit with dissatisfied
reaction toward their physical shapes. 3.
Development of sexual reaction which sometimes causes confusion to understand so that they misbehave and do some amoral acts.
4. Independency feeling which they always wish when they come into society.
5. Wills and hopes to live alone and to be independent socially and economically.
6. Society norms or values which are applicable in society are sometimes denied by
adolescents because they think that they have their own world.
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Enung Fatimah, Psikologi Perkembangan………, p. 138
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Enung Fatimah, Psikologi Perkembangan………, p. 139.
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F. The Impacts of Gangs on School
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