TY - JOUR T1 - Deviant Behavior and Drug Abused among Female Juvenile Detainees Before Detention AU - Aziz, Mohod Kasturi Nor Abd AU - Basir, Siti Norayu Mohd AU - Ismail, Rosnah AU - Rashid, Salleh Abd AU - Hassan, Junainor JO - The Social Sciences VL - 11 IS - 6 SP - 1063 EP - 1068 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2016.1063.1068 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.1063.1068 KW - school vandalism KW -drug abused KW -deviant behavior KW -Juvenile KW -sexual harassment AB - The study examines the Malay female Juvenile’s deviant behavior and drug abused before detention in Malaysia correctional institution. There were n = 41 Malay female Juvenile respondents in this study with (n = 11, age 17 year old), (n = 8 age, 18 year old), (n = 7 age, 15 year old), (n = 5 year age, 14 year old), (n = 5 age, 16 year old) and (n = 5 age, 19 year old). Data was collected using self-build instrument with 20 items and the reliability of cronbach alpha is 0.782. Finding in this study indicated the most frequent deviant behavior elicited by Malay female Juvenile according to category; school vandalism (x̄ = 10.0732); public vandalism (x̄ = 7.5122); beating (x̄ = 6.8293); harassment (x̄ = 5.9268); illegal racing (x̄ = 1.4878) and sexual harassment (x̄ = 0.8780). The finding in this study, also reported that there were two deviant behaviors which has significant correlation with drug abused that is road signboards and facilities (public vandalism) and drug (r = 0.409**, p<0.05) and between friends from other class (beating) and drug (r = 0.389*, p<0.05). ER -