Parental Factors and Criminal Behavior

The present study aims at exploring the relationship between parental factors and criminal behavior. The factors studied were level of Parental Education, Parental punishment and Parental love. The data was collected from 200 respondents including 100 criminals and 100 non-criminals. The criminals were selected from the four important jails of Bihar namely Patna, Buxar, Gaya and Bhagalpur and equal number of non-criminals (persons having noncriminals record) were also selected from the same four towns of Bihar mentioned above. The sample used was purposive one which consisted of only married male in the age range of 21 to 40, who had received education at least till seventh standard. Personal Data Schedule prepared by the researcher was used to collect the information. Chisquare was used to analyze the obtained data. The hypotheses formulated were: (1). The criminal group of subjects would differ in level of parental education from the non- criminal group of subjects. (2) Criminals and noncriminals would differ infrequency of parental punishment received in their childhood. (3) Criminals and noncriminals would differ in parental love received. The findings confirmed all three hypotheses.