A Study on Supporting Juvenile Delinquents' Rehabilitation Highlighting the Strengthening of Interpersonal Bonds

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K04006
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Nara University
• Principal Investigator: HIROI Izumi 奈良大学, 社会学部, 教授 (50512860)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 岡本 潤子 帝京大学, 文学部, 講師 (50742095) ; 坂野 剛崇 関西国際大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (90735218)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 非行少年 / 立ち直り支援 / 社会的絆 / 更生保護施設 / 少年院 / デランシーストリート / 長所基盤モデル / each one teach one

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study clarified how to support juvenile delinquents in strengthening interpersonal bonds during the rehabilitation process. We conducted interviews at the Delancey Street Foundation (DSF) and Japanese rehabilitation facilities. We interviewed the facility heads and the Japanese men who had returned to the society upon program completion.
The rehabilitation facilities’ heads improved the residents’ goal setting regarding societal adjustment, raised their self-esteem, and motivated their rehabilitation. Training school teachers helped the inmates who had identified diffusion to integrate their identities as adults. The support system implementation shared by the DSF and the Japanese rehabilitation facilities and training schools was the adoption of a strengths-based approach. However, the DSF’s “each-one-teach-one” peer support was only conducted in the specified non-profit corporation support groups for juvenile delinquents and self-help organizations for drug addicts in Japan.

Free Research Field

司法福祉学、犯罪心理学、青年心理学