PHENOMENOLOGY AND ETHOLOGY OF MALOLETICAL DELINKVENCIES Cover Image

ФЕНОМЕНОЛОГИЈА И ЕТИОЛОГИЈА МАЛОЛЕТНИЧКЕ ДЕЛИНКВЕНЦИЈЕ
PHENOMENOLOGY AND ETHOLOGY OF MALOLETICAL DELINKVENCIES

Author(s): Jelena Simonović
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Sociology
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: juveniles; delinquency; hooliganism; deviant behaviour; socialisation.

Summary/Abstract: Juvenile delinquency, as a negative social phenomenon, is characterised by an array of separate ethnoogical and phenomenological features which separate it from criminality of adults. It is separated as a special category within general criminality due to specific features related to biological, psycho-social, criminal political factors and therefore takes a special place in the legal system. Delinquent behaviour of juveniles presupposes a wide range of miscellaneous behaviour ranging from socially unadusted to criminal one. This phenomenon is also characterised by different names such as delinquency, educational neglect, antisoacial behaviour, hooliganism, social unadjustable status and, in a wider sense, difficulties in education, upbringing, disobeyance, loitering, drunkenness, running away from home. Causes of juvenile delinquency are in theory explained in different ways in which the basic characteristic of different explanations regarding basic factors causing juveniles to commit offences and crimes is that basically causes of that phenomenon are similarly observed. If we view delinquency as a social phenomenon, then we connect it to the social factors which contribute to the fact that young people do not socialise in the proper way, where, above all, family and family status are related to this phenomenon. However, as a large number of young people live in difficult financial conditions, but not all of them become delinquents, then, in accordance with some views, child's individual features have a crucial impact on starting with delinquency. Delinquency as a total of punishable ways of behaviour should be differentiated from criminality which makes the total of crimes.

  • Issue Year: IV/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 243-248
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Serbian