This study investigated the relationship between peer influence and juvenile delinquency among secondary school adolescents in Ibadan Metropolis. Multi-stage purposive sampling technique was used to select 120 students form 4 secondary schools within the metropolis. They consisted of 68 male and 42 female respondents. The ages of the respondents ranged between 11 and 18 years with the mean age and standard deviation of the ages respectively as 14.62 years and 13.37. Three research hypotheses were tested at 0.05 critical region. Two instruments were used to collect the data: Juvenile Delinquency Scale (r= 0.83) and Negative Peer Influence Scale (r = 0.95). The data collected were su Download
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