Socialproblems 140204035820 Phpapp02

DEFINITION
“Social Problem is usually taken to refer

to social conditions that disrupt or damage
society”
CAUSES
 Unemployment.
 Poverty.
 Rapid population growth.
 Urbanization.
 Lack of education.
 Superstitious beliefs.
 Gender discrimination.
 Caste discrimination.
TYPES
I. Prostitution
II. Delinquency
III. Crime
IV. Substance Abuse
V. Dowry System
VI. Handicapped
VII.Over Population
VIII. Slum
PROSTITUTION
PROSTITUTION
 Its world’s oldest profession.
 Its not only personal disorganization
 Its affect family and the community at large.
 It is a burning social problems the globe.
 Combinations of factors are enhancing the prostitution.
 “A prostitute is a persons who agrees to have sexual

intercourse with any persons, who offers money or in kind”.
Causes of prostitution
 Biological: Sex urge is human being
 Socio-Economic: Poverty, Mother’s occupation,
Industrialization, Urbanization,
Lack of family and social control and
Lack of moral teaching.
Causes of females
 Economic factor: with out any support
 Ignorance: rural girls, employment posts
 Unhappy marital relations:
 Inordinate sex desire:
 Desire for new experience:
 Restrictions on widow remarriage:
 Devadasi system:
Causes of males
 The unmarried persons: leads bachelors to prostitution.
 The married person: unsatisfactory marital
relationship, temperamental or cultural differences
between the couple.
 The widower or the divorces
TYPES OF PROSTITUTES
 The overt prostitute:
 Professional registered, unregistered prostitute who live in
brothel houses.
 Act as entertainers, supplements to their legitimate
earnings.
 Clandestine group:
 The occasional prostitute: who alternates periods of reforms
with period of active prostitution.
 The incidental prostitute: Inadequate legitimate income, by
the role of sex favour increased income.
 Married women occasionally resort to mercenary and
adulterous practices.
 Lower status of women which the guardian enters into
agreement with a member for a stipulated period.
Legislation on prostitution
Bombay prevention of prostitution Act 1923,
Madras 1930, Bengal 1933, UP 1933,
Punjab 1935, Bihar 1948, MP 1953.
Suppression of Immoral Act 1956.
Future Programme
 Sex education
 Employment opportunity for women
 Removal of certain social customs
 Publicity and propaganda
Delinquency
DELINQUENCY
 Juvenile delinquents are simply under-age criminals
constitute crimes when committed by adults.
 Between the age group of 7 to 16 or 18 years, as
prescribed by the law of the land.
Definition
 According to Reckless (1956), the term ‘juvenile
delinquency’ applies to the “violation of criminal code
and/or pursuit of certain patterns of behaviour
disapproved of for children and young adolescents”.
Nature of Juvenile Delinquents
1. The delinquents rates are much higher among boys
than among girls, that is, girls commit less delinquents
than boys.
2. The delinquents rates tend to be highest during early
adolescence (12-16 yrs age).
3. Juvenile delinquency is more an urban than a rural
phenomenon.
4. Children living with parents and guardians are found
to be more involved in the juvenile crimes.
5. Low educational background is the prime attribute for
delinquency.
6. Poor economic background
7. Not many delinquents are committed in groups.

Factors in Juvenile Delinquency
Individual factors Situational factors
1. Submissiveness Family Peer

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2. disobedience 1. Parents’ discipline relations
environment
3. lack ofsympathy 2. Parents’ affection
1. Adjustment to
4. irresponsibility 3. Cohesiveness of school mates
5. Feeling of family
2. Attitudes
insecurity 4. Conduct-standards of toward school
6. Fear home
3. Failure in
7. Emotional conflicts 5. replacement parents classes or
academic
8. Lack of self-control 6. Father’s work habits
interests
7. Economic conditions
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environment
8. Conjugal relations of
parents
9. Broken homes
Preventive programmes
1. General improvements in the institutional structure of

the society, for example, family, neighborhood, school.
2. Raising the income levels of poor families.
3. Providing job opportunities to children
4. Establishing schools
5. Improving job conditions
6. Providing recreational facilities in neighborhoods
7. Improving marital relations through family counseling
services
8. Imparting moral and social education.
Crime
CRIME
Definition
Tappan has defined crime as “an intentional act
or omission in violation of criminal law
committed without defense or justification”.
Thorsten Sellin has described it as “violation of
conduct norms of the normative groups”
Mowrer had defined it as “an anti-social act”.
Characteristics of Crime
 Hall Jerome (1947), according to him, no action is to
be viewed as crime unless it has five characteristics
1. It is legally forbidden
2. It is intentional
3. It is harmful to society
4. It has criminal objective
5. Some penalty is prescribed for it.
Confinement of Correction of Criminals
Two methods are mainly used in our society in
punishing/treating the criminals.
 Imprisonment and release on probation
Prisons
 The condition in Indian jails were horrible up to 1919-20.

 It was after recommendations of 1919-20 Indian Jails
Reform committee that changes like classification,
segregation of prisoners, education, recreation, assigning
productive work and opportunities for maintaining
contacts with family and society were introduced in
maximum-security prisons.
 That is central jail, district jails and sub-jails
Probation
 Probation is an alternative to a prison.

 It is suspension of sentence of an offender by the court and
releasing him on certain conditions to live in the
community with or without the supervision of a probation
officer.
 The system was introduced in India in 1958 by passing the
Central Probation Act.
 Through section 562 in 1898 IPC permitted release of an
offender on probation but it applied only to juvenile
delinquents and first offenders.
Substance abuse
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
 The term substance can refer to any physical matter.

 Substance abuse may be perceived both as abnormal
behaviour and as a social problem.
 In spite of this increase, drug abuse in India is still
considered more as an abnormal behaviour than an
anti-social or a non-conforming behaviour.
 Several researches have been conducted on drug
abuse in India in the last two decade by Medical
scientists, psychiatrists and sociologists.
Motivation in Drug Usage
1. Psychological causes:
 like relieving tension, depression, removing inhibitions,
satisfying interest, removing boredom, getting kicks,
feeling high and confident, and intensifying perception.
1. Social causes:
 Like facilitating social experiences, being accepted by
friends and challenging social values.
1. Physiological cause:
 Like increasing sexual experiences, removing pain and
getting sleep.
1. Other cause:
 Like improving study, depending self-understanding and
solving personal problems, etc.
Control over Substance Abuse
1. Teaching education about drugs:

 Prevention should be young college/university students
particularly those living in hostels and way from control of their
parents.
 And living in slums, industrials workers, and truck drivers and
rickshaw-pullers.
 Parents have to play an important role in imparting education.
1. Changing physicians’ attitude:

 The doctors have to show a greater care in controlling the side
efforts of the drugs.
 Though drugs help many, yet there are dangers of over-
dependency.
 Thus, people come to depend more on medication than on
physician which is a dangerous practice.
3. Rehabilitation centre:
 Of addicts treated under rehabilitation centers.
4. Counseling

to the Parents:
 Communicate with openly with the children, listen to

their problems patiently and teach them how to handle

the problems.

 Take interest in children’s activities and their circle of
friends

 Set an example for children by not taking drugs or
alcohol.

 Keep track of prescribed drugs in home

5. The teachers:
 They can discuss dangers of drug abuse with the students

by taking informally and openly.

 They can keep themselves interested in their students’

interested and activities.

 They can encourage them to volunteer information of any
incident

of drug abuse.
 They can talk about the problems of adolescence and
guide students how to solve them.
 They can help them in selecting career options and setting
goals.

 They can encourage them to discuss their crises with

them and help them to the best of their abilities in facing
these crises

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DEFINITION

“Social Problem is usually taken to refer

 “A prostitute is a persons who agrees to have sexual

7. Not many delinquents are committed in groups.

Individual factors Situational factors

1. Submissiveness Family Peer

1. General improvements in the institutional structure of

 The condition in Indian jails were horrible up to 1919-20.

 Probation is an alternative to a prison.

 The term substance can refer to any physical matter.

1. Teaching education about drugs:

1. Changing physicians’ attitude:

 Keep track of prescribed drugs in home

by taking informally and openly.

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