Social Responsibility of Parents and Teachers in Prevention of Criminality and Crime: A Perceptual Analysis

Abstract

Criminality is anti-social or deviant thinking, idea, influence, the concept of greed, revenge, and inhibition, responses to provocation developed or developing in mind but yet to be converted into action which would, as a result, be called a crime. The present study is an attempt to assess the extent of social responsibility of parents and teachers in the prevention of criminality and crime.  For the present study, 15 government schools and 15 private were selected. From each school six teachers and ten parents of students studying in high school were selected. Hence, a total of 180 teachers and 300 parents were selected for the data collection. The researcher developed a structured questionnaire specifically for present study, to obtain the data on the awareness of social responsibility and role in the prevention of criminality and crime among the participants along with demographic details. The data collected was further statistically analysed in SPSS for descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Teachers and parents differed significantly in three factors of social roles and responsibility-awareness of roles, awareness of criminality & crime, patriotism and total scores where teachers had higher scores than parents. Age wise we find significant differences in factors of awareness & crime, patriotism and total social responsibility scores where we find that respondents in the age group of 51-60 had lower scores and others high. There was no gender difference across the factors and overall social responsibility scores, indicating that both males and females have scored similarly. Government school teachers had higher scores on most of the factors and in total scores, indicating higher social responsibility.