The Role of Delinquency Care Institution in the Social Integration of the Delinquent Girls: A Field Study

Abstract

This Research aims at examining the role of social care institutions in rehabilitating and modifying the delinquent girls’ behavior in order to reintegrate them in the society. The research is based on two social theories: social welfare issues and the functional requirements of stereotypes; the researcher has depended on the case study approach to collect the data through 30 in-depth interviews. The research resulted in: The institutions are characterized by the quality of their infrastructure due to the prevailing interest to develop them. The social care system of these girls includes investigating their cases directly after being institutionalized, helping them solve their problems, systematizing their lives in these institutions, providing for their basic needs, health care from the beginning and continuously. There is a decline in the number of girls who are enrolled in education as well as in their educational level, a lack of interest in the offered literacy programs, being uninterested in the cultural content provided and considering it as an entertainment.