This article attempts to answer the question of what are the main factors and conditions that determine the social and behavioral deviance in adolescents and juveniles. The author tries to answer the main question and the following related ones by examining the researches so far conducted on the juvenile delinquency. This is done using a certain type of secondary analysis. The related questions are:
1. What answers the related researches provide for the question (the determining factors influencing deviance and delinquency in juveniles)?
2. According to the researches examined, what are the priorities of the causes that lead to deviance and delinquency in adolescents and juveniles and what is the frequency of the theories and the theoretical variables employed in those researches?
3. As seen by the researches examined, what are the order and the rate of deviance and delinquency in girls and boys, and on what variables they are modeled?
Following the necessary selection, researches at hand were reduced to the number of 57. They were then studied and evaluated on the basis of the already-defined criteria related to their form and content, and a total of 12 researches were selected for the final evaluation. These researches enjoyed a high variety in terms of themes and methodologies. In particular, they had investigated higher numbers of samples. The samples included 965 girls and 2459 boys in a total of 3424 samples. They are these samples which make the importance of this study and the results of those researches more evident. The findings show that:
1. Deviance and delinquency in adolescents are influenced and correlated to factors such as sex, age, social status of the family, parents’ religious beliefs, intimacy with deviant friends, membership in delinquent groups, educational background, interest in school, and parental participation in school meetings.
2. The variables that are mostly repeated and emphasized as causing, preparing for, and enforcing deviance and delinquency in adolescents are socio-economic status of the adolescent, his relationship with the uncomforting friends and interest and membership in such groups, kind and degree of parental supervision and control of the adolescent’s behavior, and the disintegration of the family.
3. Boys almost always more than girls fall victim to all types of deviance, delinquency and crime
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