ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Wanchai Rujjanawong

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Executive Summary: Wrongdoing reduction strategy in underage drinking.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: The 3rd National Alcohol Conference "Alcohol : No Ordinary Commodity", 21st-22nd November 2007, Richmond Hotel, Nonthaburi, Page 75.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Recent statistics reveal that juvenile delinquency is increasing in number, degree of violence, and seriousness. It is believed that increase might be related to alcohol consumption> Therefore, the Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection interviewed 1,298 juveniles in Juvenile Observation and protection centers (JOPCs) and Juvenile Rehabilitation and Training centers (JRTCs) in order to conduct a study. This study aimed to explore the occurrence and drinking pattern of juveniles entering the juvenile justice process, to examine the factors that caused wrongdoing among juveniles, to investigate the association between drinking and other factors inherent in juveniles, and to recommend measures of prevention and other appropriate approaches for children and youths, as well as young offenders who are alcohol abusers. The results from the study show that juveniles have an average age of 16 years and 9 months when they were arrested. The lowest age of firs alcohol consumption is 5 years, and the average age is 14 years and 6 months. The main reasons given for drinking are want to try 84.5% and follow friends' drinking behavior 77.5% and their reasons for committing wrongdoing are in a sudden urge out of control 52.5% and friend's persuasion 42.7%. About 40.8% of juveniles committed wrongdoing within 5 hours after drinking alcohol, and their reasons are in a sudden urge out of control and drunkenness 61.5 and 59.2 percent respectively. Additionally, the findings reveal that types of alcoholic beverages, friends, social/community values, juvenile's attitude, families, reasons for drinking, media, and sources of alcohol beverages are all associated with the drinking behavior of juveniles. The results from the Chi-square test show tat: (1) types of alcoholic beverages significantly relate to gender, educational level, realization of harm, length of drinking, ability to buy at small local shops, offences committed while drinking, commission of offences due to drunkenness, co-offending, and family economic status at the 0.001 level, (2) sexual offence and body and life offence significantly relate to re-offending at the 0.001 and 0.01 level respectively, (3) beer consumption and frequency of consumption significantly relate to peer pressure, drinking at parties, and average duration of drinking at the 0.001 level while quantity of drinking significantly relates to dander, peer pressure, drinking at friends home, average duration of drinking, drinking in the evening, buying at small local shops, educational level of the mother, and truancy at the 0.001 level, (4) whisky/brandy consumption and frequency of consumption significantly relate to gender, drinking at parties, average duration of drinking, buying at small local shops, and co-offending at the 0.004 level while quantity of drinking significantly relates to peer pressure, drinking at parties, average duration of drinking, buying at a convenient store, and presence of close friends at the 0.001 level. In addition, the results from the factor analysis show that internal or psychological factors of juveniles, factors related to pleasure-seeking behavior, factors related to self-confidence, and external or environmental factors, taken together can predict about 45.88% of juvenile offending.

Keywords: alcohol, drinker, violence, juvenile, alcohol consumption, wrongdoing

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2007

Address: The Director General of the Department Probation.

Code: 200800127

ISSN/ISBN: 978-974-09-4574-1

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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