Quantitative approach to study the role of families and school environments on juvenile delinquency in Denpasar City

Adolescence is a transition period from children to adults with its characters are (a) the existence of an extension of the self; (b) the existence of self-objectification; and (c) the growth of the philosophy of life. In the transition process, an adolescent will experience a personality formation that occurs not in a simple way and has a potency for self-conflict. The existence of incompatibility between the three adolescent characteristics and the values or norms that are generally acceptable in the community has the potential to trigger an ‘emotional outburst’ for the youth if it was not properly handled by the teenager or by his/her parents and the surrounding environment. This self-conflict potentially leading to acts of irregularities, commonly refers to juvenile delinquency. This essay aims to study the effect of the socio- economic background of the family and school environment on juvenile delinquency at Denpasar City, the capital of Bali province. A hundred and fifty senior high school students at Denpasar, randomly selected as the respondents and were asked to fulfill the self-regulated questionnair ?e. By applying the variance-based structural equation modeling (VB-SEM), we found the socio- economic factors have a bigger effect on juvenile delinquency than the influence of school environments.