References
Min Jung, K., Tajima, E. A., Herrenkohl, T. I., & Bu, H. (2009). Early Child Maltreatment, Runaway Youths, and Risk of Delinquency and Victimization in Adolescence: A Mediational Model. Social Work Research, 33(1), 19-28. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
My research topic continues to change, once again. My focus keeps moving from teenage pregnancy, to drug abuse, and now to juvenile delinquents. With my new topic, I would like to explore the reasons why youth runaway from their homes. There are a lot of contributing factors and theories that could help explain their decision to runaway, and this article helps explain some of them.
Childhood is an important part of growing up, and it is crucial to treat every child with the proper care and respect they deserve. In this study, the researchers wanted to know if physical and psychological abuse in childhood increases the outcome of a child running away. Also, once this is decided, the researchers continue to investigate if a teen running away will contribute to more delinquent acts as an adolescent. The method used to collect data for this study was a longitudinal design. This means, data is collected from the same group of people for a long period of time. The sample size was moderate, and a good representation of the actual population. Overall, from this study it was found that teen’s possibly use running away as a mediator of physical/psychological/sexual abuse. Also, this can be a prediction of any future delinquency acts occurring.
This article relates to my research topic and includes information that will be helpful with my research. There are many factors that can contribute to a teenager running away, and this article focuses on one, which is abuse. From these findings it will hopefully help guide me in the right direction and allow me to understand this social problem more clearly.
Juvenile delinquency in general is really interesting, and I like that you chose the issue of runaways because it seems to be a population easily overlooked and simplified as "angsty teens". -Kendal
ReplyDeleteI was wondering here about the "Stockholm Syndrome" and if the degree of abuse and how it was defined in the study. Would severely abused kids be less likely to run away than moderately abused kids? It takes a little sense of self and power to make a move and I wonder what goes on in an adolescent's mind that might be similar to that of a battered spouse.
ReplyDeleteTechnical comment: how did the authors ensure that the sample was representative and how many subjects did they have?