Social and economic factors associated with the return of juveniles to delinquency Field study on specialists working in the Social Observation House

The study aims to identify the most patterns of crimes accompanied by a high rate of juvenile recidivism; as well as identifying the social and economic factors associated with juvenile’s recidivism. This study reviews the most important correctional programmes followed by the Observation House's specialists to reduce this problem and it also presents the proposals needed to tackle the problem of juvenile’s recidivism. Regarding the tools of study, both the survey descriptive approach and the questionnaire were used.  The questionnaire was distributed to 443 specialists at the Social Observation House in various regions of the Saudi Arabia Kingdom.  The main findings of this study include the following: The most common types of crime associated with a high rate of juvenile recidivism are theft and drugs. The most important social factors associated with the return of juveniles to delinquency are poor family control, return to former bad friends, and parental divorce. Most important economic factors associated with the return of juveniles to delinquency are family's low standard of living, the family’s material deprivation of their juveniles, the lack of walking-around money given to the juvenile. Among the most prominent reform programs practiced by specialists to tackle the problem of juvenile recidivism are:  Religious programs. Awareness and guidance programs.  Social welfare programs. The most important proposals needed for tackling the problem are:  Raising awareness of delinquency damages and side effects.  Preparing juvenile remedial plans. Activating community partnership to develop and implement juvenile remedial programs. In the light of these findings, the study provided a number of recommendations.