Street Children, Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Legal and Social Reforms in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1941
Street Children, Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Legal and Social Reforms in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1941

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the impact of government measures for addressing youth criminality and the wider problem of child protection in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia before the Second World War, at the same time detailing the motives that underpinned government intervention in these years. Focusing on both the social and legal aspects of dealing with juvenile delinquency, it suggests that, while the experts’ and governments’ legal approach, inspired by contemporary European trends, placed Yugoslavia among the countries with a modern understanding of child protection in the interwar period, there was overall little concern about the implementation of social programmes for preventing delinquency and assisting released minors.

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