The Role of the Delinquent Sub-Culture Theory in Interpreting a Sample of Convicted Juveniles Deviant Behaviour in Juvenile Centres in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

  The goal of this study was to test the Delinquent Sub-culture Theory in the interpretation of deviant behaviour. This is a qualitative research. The sample of the study consisted of 80 convicted juveniles at Osama Bin Zaid and Abdullah Bin Rawaha Juvenile Centers in which their ages ranged between 15 – 18 years old. The researcher used random sampling process to select the sample of the study. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used a questionnaire survey to elicit data from the respondents.
The questionnaire comprised three paragraphs. The first paragraph contained demographic variables' information. The second paragraph consisted information about the social class variables. The third paragraph comprised items about delinquent sub-culture. The three paragraphs contained 31 items. They treated issues related to culture, community, family, peers and individual factors.
In order to answer the research questions and hypotheses of the study, the researcher used standard deviations and means average to test the sample of (T). The findings of the research indicated that there is statistically significant inverse relationship at    ( a≤   (0.05 between the following variables:  educational level of the juvenile, educational and professional level of the father and the effect level of societal culture, family and peers and individual factors for the convicted juveniles' deviant behaviors.
This research recommends that further research be conducted in this area to confirm the findings of this study.