| Family structure
The family remains the frontline defence against juvenile delinquency; a broken or disrupted family life may encourage any pre-existing forces operating in a child’s life to produce delinquency (Siegel & Senna 1988:243). In this regard, social and family conditions play an important role in the development of delinquency. The very nature of the child’s family structure, especially that of children growing up in disadvantaged families, is crucial in determining the kind of social problems such children may experience in their later life. Lacking basic skills through poor training and education necessary to achieve social and economic success in life to survive independently, easily contribute to maladjustment and subsequent delinquency (Senna 1989:171). In the current case file analysis on who cared for the diverted juveniles at home, only 23 (8.4%) of the diverted juveniles were raised by both or either one of the parents. In 6 (2.2%) cases the juvenile offenders reared by a grandmother/father, or by an uncle or aunt respectively. Unfortunately, in 228 (82.9%) of the diverted cases, the socialisation agent not be determined due to incomplete information.
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