Background: the first six years of life are the formative period of life. The foundations of healthy personality or otherwise, are laid during this period when the child’s world is his parents and his home. Given a plastic mind and being in the closet association with parents his personality development will be influenced by attitude of parents. Aims: this study was done to know the reasons behind delinquent nature of children. One of the factors is the parent’s criminal behavior which affects the children. In the present study total 102 cases are examined in 2 years at remand home, ahmednagar. Materials and methods: there were 49 cases those remanded in year 2004, the information and data are collected retrospectively and 53 cases that were admitted in remand home in the year 2005, those data and information were collected prospectively. Results: the present study includes retrospective data of 49 cases and prospective data of 53 cases in 2005, constituting total of 102 cases of juvenile delinquency. All the cases i.e. 102 cases were males. Maximum cases (50%) occurred between age group of 16 – 18 yrs. Most of the children left the school after studying up to 10th std. Thirty one cases were illiterate. Majority of children did not get the affection of their parents. In 30% cases fathers were died & in 10% cases mothers were died & 3% cases both were died. Out of 102 cases, 58 cases have more than 3 siblings. Predominantly (89%) were from lower socio economic class. Parents of all delinquent children were illiterate. 37.25 % of children were involved in theft, followed by riot (17.65%). Delinquent children also committed serious offences like rape (4%) cases, unnatural sexual offences such as anal intercourse (2%) cases & murder (3%) cases.

Key words: Juvenile delinquency, remand home, education, family size, criminal activities.