School Violence and Juvenile Delinquency in Malaysia: A Comparative Analysis between Western Perspectives and Islamic Perspectives

AbstractCurrent study aims at discovering the possible preventative methods in reducing school violence and juvenile delinquency among children in Malaysia from the Islamic perspective. The research is mainly a library based research obtained through the collection and compilation of written sources. Modern psychologists focused more on the behavioral, biological, social, family, and cognitive as the preventative methods of school violence and juvenile deliquency without paying much attention to the human spirituality and the role of religion and faith as the predictor of adolescents’ behaviour. Based on the analysis, it is suggested that religion and faith plays important role in preventation of aggressive behaviour amongst adolescents