1. Causes of deviant behavior among
youth:
Some of the causes are:
1 Broken family:
Family is the first institution teaching norms of social life . Parents play important role in this process
if both or one of the parents is absent by death or other reason ,the child fails to get proper learning
and gets into the habit of deviance
2 lack of interest in education:
School and college are the next socializing institutions of education. If he does not take interest in
study, it means his attention has been diverted toward anti-social activities . This could be because of
bad company which may lead him to become a deviant
2. 3 lack of religious education and morality:
Failure to seek religious education paves way toward delinquency. Door of moral value closes
opens the door to delinquency. If morality fails to direct toward normative way of life the way to
delinquent behaviour becomes easy. Failure of religious and moral values is the main cause of
deviant behavior and delinquency.among youth
4 Desire of accumulation of wealth:
Desire to have accumulation of wealth by hook or by crook is also one of the main cause of
social deviance . People without any fear join illegal profession like drug selling ,land grabbing
,smuggling which are deviant and criminal act
3. Deviance in youth
1.Youth as innovators:
Example
Some poor people and pleasure-seekers may be forced to ‘innovate’ or
resort to illegitimate, “dishonest” mean to get money. Such “innovators’ are
problematic deviants.
2. Youth as rituals:
Sometimes youth gives up important social values yet does lip service to them by
carefully observing related norms of behaviour. They are ritualists
Example:
students who graduate from high school without career plans but attend a college or
university anyways, because that is what is expected
Youth will be innovators when they accept the goals but not the means
4. 3.Youth as retreaters:
when youth doesn't desire to fulfill cultural goals or abide by institutional norms.they will be
called retreaters
Example:
Retreatism is the withdrawal from a task, activity, or experience, and may go unnoticed
when a student becomes more engaged with the teacher than with the task at hand
4.Youth as rebels:
Teenagers becomes rebillion in order to develop an identity independent from their parents or
family and a capacity for independent decision-making.
Example:
A child who consistently disrupts lessons, irritates or bullies other students, and routinely fails
assignments
