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dc.contributor.authorRintaugu, James Muthomi
dc.contributor.authorMuthee, Jessina
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-10T07:40:30Z
dc.date.available2017-05-10T07:40:30Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationResearch on Humanities and Social Sciences Vol.6, No.20, 2016en_US
dc.identifier.issn2224-5766
dc.identifier.issn2225-0484
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/17557
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study was to review characteristics of behaviour change among children at risk in juvenile rehabilitation centres within Nairobi County, Kenya. The target population was all the children and managers of Juvenile rehabilitation Centres in Nairobi County. It consisted of 380 boys, 160 girls, 8 managers in Kabete and Getathuru and 4 managers in Dagorreti rehabilitation Centre, making a total of 552 respondents. Children at risk in Juvenile rehabilitation Centres within Nairobi County were sampled using probability and non-probability sampling methods. To obtain a practicable sample from the target population, convenience, purposive, stratified random and systematic random sampling methods were used respectively. Questionnaires, interview schedules and focus groups were used in the study as tools for data gathering. Data gathered was entered, coded and analyzed using inferential statistics and SPSS. The qualitative data was organized, analyzed and reported into emerging themes. The study established that rehabilitation of children at risk in Juvenile rehabilitation Centres was not sufficiently addressed and it was only those children with severe and profound cases whose misbehaviours transformed to moderate levels. Educationists were left out during assessment, classification and in general, the behaviour change process despite their rich expertise in rehabilitation. The researcher recommended a multidisciplinary approach in behaviour change process. That is in Educational Assessment and classification of children at risk to specifically cater for the Children’s special Needs in Education. That the government of Kenya moves all the Juvenile Rehabilitation Centres from Ministry of Labour and Social Services and be placed under the Ministry of Education which has adequate personnel required to rehabilitate a child.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Institute of Science, Technology and Educationen_US
dc.subjectBehaviouren_US
dc.subjectChildren at risken_US
dc.subjectJuvenileen_US
dc.subjectRehabilitationen_US
dc.subjectJuvenile Rehabilitation Centresen_US
dc.subjectDelinquencyen_US
dc.titleReview of Characteristics of Behaviour Change among Children at Risk in Juvenile Rehabilitation Centres in Nairobi County, Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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