Journal of Applied Sociology 21th year, Vol 39, No3, Autumn 2010 Received: 87/10/25 Accepted: 88/2/13 PP 113-134 The Relationship between ICT's and Adolescents' Delinquencies Case study: Students in Abadeh County B., khajehnoori, Assistant Professor, Department of SociologyShiraz University∗ Abstract This study investigates the relationship between the new media (ICT's) and high school students' delinquency in Abadeh county. In this study, delinquency includes vandalism and other delinquenty behaviors, which is spreading fast in adolescence age. The research methodology is based on survey in which 500 male and female students were randomly selected. The related data was collected by self-report questionnaires. Findings show that the mean use of ICT in males is higher than females but the mean use of old media are not significant. Most of ICT's have positive relations to juveniles' delinquency but some of old media have negative relations. The final model shows that ICT's could explain 12 percent of total delinquency, 12 percent of vandalism and 14 percent of other delinquent behaviors. Key words: Adolescent, Delinquency, ICT and Globalization ∗Correspondent Author: Email:
[email protected] 114 Journal of Applied Sociology, 21th year, Vol 39, No3, Autumn 2010 Introduction capabilities) and other technologies, are all time being used by adolescents at the same. One of the Globalization is one of the most important topics in modern tools of socio - economic development is sociology. Giddens believes if we do not understand telecommunication facilities, in addition to all it and not be able to talk about it, we cannot these benefits, there are some negative results.