TITLE:
Juvenile Delinquency and Psychopathic Behavior: About a Case in Abidjan
AUTHORS:
Koffi Paulin Konan, Kouadio Raymond N’Guessan, Bla Désirée Sandrine Ziketo, Brahima Samuel Traoré, Yessonguilana Jean-Marie Yeo-Tenena
KEYWORDS:
Youth, Delinquency, Psychopathic Behavior, Violence, Abidjan
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Psychiatry,
Vol.12 No.4,
August
17,
2022
ABSTRACT: Violent and murderous juvenile
delinquency born of the phenomenon of young people organized in gangs commonly
called “microbes”, has become a real security problem for Ivorian society. It is
in this context that this study has set itself the main objective of depicting the
psychopathic behavior of a young “microbe” delinquent who has committed several violent crimes. It was a monographic study of the correlational-explanatory
type that mobilized observation and semi-directive interviews for the production of data. The method of phenomenological analysis permits to detect traits of psychopathy in a 21-year-old youth through family
history and accounts of criminal acts committed. The results of the study
showed, on the one hand, a family dysfunction that gave the bed of behaviors such as the lack of empathy, the absence of remorse
and the superficiality of the affects, thus translating a deficit on the level of the affective dimension. We also noted the presence of antisocial behavior such as living on the streets
or in smoking rooms consuming and selling
drugs. There were further implications such as theft, physical
aggression and intentional homicide. According to the psychopathy literature,
emotional insensitivity juxtaposed with behavior disorder was a primary combination of characteristics that help identify adolescents who exhibit psychopathic traits. Faced with this reality, this
study pleads for the establishment of a special aid program to better control the
deadly violence of these people.