Influences of Age and Class of Secondary School Students on Inclination to Crime Commission

The study of investigated the influence of class and age of secondary school students on inclination to crime. The descriptive research design of the survey type was used for the study. The population for the study are all 219 public secondary school in Ekiti. The questionnaire titled Iinclination To Crime (ITC) among secondary school student was administered on the junior and senior secondary school students. The validity of the instrument was ensured using face and content validity. The test retest reliability of the instrument was ensured by administering 30 copies of the instrument on subject that are not part of the sample on 2 acetous of 2 weeks interoal. A reliability of 0.86 was obtained and found significant at 0.05 level of significance using person product moment correlation analysis. Copies of the final instrument with personally administered by the researcher. The data collected were analyzed using inferential statistics of t-test. The result of the analysis showed that there are significant differences in the tendencies to commit crime by the junior students on senior students and there are marked differences in the ages the students are inclined to crime. Based on the teachers and counselor should consider the level of aberrant students and their ages while counseling them.