Abstract:

Unwanted behaviors of children can harm children’s development and family life and can cause serious social problems. Therefore, it is necessary to plan and monitor the factors that push youth into crime, and to plan both preventive and interfering studies that involve parents and educators in this matter. In this study, it is aimed to examine family belonging and life satisfaction of young people pushed to crime. In this respect, 226 boys convicted in Maltepe Children and Youth Closed Penitentiary Institution, Maltepe No.2 l Type Closed Penitentiary Institution and Juvenile Correctional Facility located in Istanbul 15-18 age group were included in the study. For the study, data were obtained by using Personal Information Form, Family Sense of Belonging Scale and Life Satisfaction Scale. In the analysis of the data, descriptive analysis, independent samples t test, one way ANOVA and Pearson's correlation analysis techniques were used. According to the findings, the self-esteem, family sense of belonging perceptions of the youth included in the study were at a high level and their perception of life satisfaction was at a medium level. It was observed that there are significant differences between family sense of belonging and variables such as the number of siblings, family co-existence, maternal or paternal residence status, whether or not to escape from the house and the father's substance use status (p<0.05). There was no significant difference between family structure and father's alcohol use and family sense of belonging. In addition, as the life satisfaction of children increased, family sense of belonging increased or in other words life satisfaction increased as family sense of belonging increased.

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