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The school-based life skill training program aims to prevent substance abuse, violence, and risky behaviors among young people. It is connected to criminological theories such as social learning, strain theory, social control, and differential association. The program teaches students to resist peer pressure, make informed decisions, and handle social pressures without resorting to drugs or violence. It also promotes constructive interactions and provides resources for success. By teaching critical thinking, communication skills, and avoidance of negative influences, the program helps juveniles to avoid criminal behavior. The objective of the school-based life skill training program is to stop substance abuse, violence, and other risky behaviors among juveniles in early age. The LST program encounters multiple connections to criminological theories. The social learning theory states that individuals acquire certain behavior by observing and copying others, such as friends, families, peers, neighbors, acquaintances, etc. The life skill training program is a program created to prevent the spread of adolescence, tobacco, marijuana, and alcohol use, as well as decrease violence and crime. This program teaches students to resist peer pressure and make informed decisions through role-playing and other interactive techniques. The strain theory states that social pressure from outside can cause people to turn into criminals. The LST program teaches students problem-solving and stress-reduction strategies so they can handle social pressures without misusing drugs or resorting to violence. The social control theory suggests that people with strong social ties are less likely to engage in deviant behavior. By encouraging constructive interactions between students and adults and giving them the resources they need to succeed in classroom and life, LST helps to fortify these bonds. The differential association theory explains that criminal behavior is developed by interaction people have with each other. In this case, if juveniles grow up viewing criminal behavior around them, they will view it as normal. Yet, this is where the LST program comes into play by teaching juveniles to have critical of their own handle on wanted peer pressure, communication skills, and avoiding violence and drugs.