Authors

  • Frank Darkwa Baffour Department of Social Work, Box 419, Legon-Accra, Ghana
  • Adam Abass Department of Social Work, Box 419, Legon-Accra, Ghana

Keywords:

Juvenile Delinquency, Poor Parenting, Social Bonding Theory, and Qualitative Research.

Abstract

The upsurge in the rate of juvenile delinquency over the past decades and scanty literature in the area of juvenile delinquency in Ghana necessitated this study.

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Published

2016-10-25

How to Cite

Baffour, F. D., & Abass, A. (2016). International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 30(2), 151–166. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/6395

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