Juvenile Offenders: Reasons and Characteristics of Criminal Behavior

Abstract

The article examines the phenomenon of "juvenile delinquency", assesses its actual state and establishes the tendencies of its manifestations. Juvenile delinquency in Ukraine as a part of crime in a broad sense arises and develops under the influence of certain determinants. The study of the causes and conditions of juvenile delinquency remains relevant today, which indicates the special danger of this kind of crime for the development of society. The purpose of the article is to study the state of the problem in Ukraine and the experience of other countries in minimising the criminal behaviour of minors in the process of property and non-property relations. The leading approach that was used when writing the article is the comparison and analysis of modern materials on the problems of criminal behaviour of criminals who have not reached the age of majority. As a result, it was possible to identify the social characteristics of juvenile criminals and the reasons for their criminal behaviour. Considerable attention is paid to the factors influencing the commission of crimes: a dysfunctional family, shortcomings of the educational process, the problem of alcohol and drug use by minors. In addition, some directions for the prevention of juvenile delinquency were developed. The applied value is the ability to change legislation in terms of work and correction of minor criminals' behaviour.

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“… 35 Most children in detention are victims of intersectional vulnerabilities, including poverty, 36 dysfunctional family structures [e.g. parental criminal record/incarceration], 37 violence and trauma, 38 weak academic and learning problems or low educational aspirations, 39 mental health problems, 40 and inhabiting insecure neighbourhoods, 41 among others. For most incarcerated children and adolescents, interruption to schooling and other skills training programmes could entrench deviant behaviours.…”

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“…Although the increase in crime is one of the most acute problems of our time, which affects almost all aspects of public life and, in particular, creates an immediate threat to economic and political transformation (a factor of social destabilisation of society), in the context of war, this problem takes on new aspects (Poltava et al, 2020). The urgency of countering and combating it in these turbulent circumstances is due to the public demand for the inadmissibility of the facts of using officials of their official position for the purpose of committing criminal offences; an increased threshold of sensitivity of society to the facts of committing criminal offences related to corruption, theft, and illegal use of humanitarian aid, which gives rise to citizens' despondency in defeating the enemy; an increase in the level of public sensitivity to criminal offences related to corruption as the increase in the number of offences against property is particularly unacceptable and cynical in war conditions.…”