@article{2017,title={An Investigation into Forgiveness in Juvenile Delinquents},abstractNode={The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between adolescents who have become involved in crime and factors that are thought to be related to a disposition towards forgiveness. This study adopts a quantitative methodology, applying a “Tendency to Forgive” scale on a 124-person group of adolescent voluntary participants in an effort to identify the relationship between independent variables and a disposition towards forgiveness. The study finds that an adolescent’s level of education is not related to a higher tendency to forgive, but that those adolescents who do not have a close friend in a juvenile detention facility do have a higher disposition towards forgiveness. In comparison with this latter group, those adolescents who do have a close friend in a juvenile detention facility are more inclined towards “avoidance” tendencies, which might be termed a more passive attitude than a disposition towards forgiveness. This study finds that adolescents who are in juvenile detention facilities for the first time have a greater tendency to forgive than those who have been in such facilities on multiple occasions, and that neither the use of addictive, harmful drugs or the length of time spent in a juvenile detention facility have a meaningful impact on one’s disposition towards forgiveness. This study compares its findings with those of related to studies in the field and discusses them in the context of the broader academic literature on the subject. },author={ -Mualla YILDIZ },year={2017},journal={Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi}}