THE CONCEPT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE DELINQUECTION

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency contains many features of adult criminality, but given the number of biopsychological, sociological and legal characteristics of young people, juvenile delinquency also contains many specificities that separate it from general criminality into a special category. These specificities are reflected both in the scope, structure, dynamics of the emergence and manifestation of juvenile delinquency, and in the manner and means of society's response to this phenomenon. As a significant social problem, which is present in all modern countries, including the Republika Srpska, it represents a complex and dangerous criminological, legal, economic and sociological challenge. At the same time, it is a visible symptom of the crisis of the family, the school system and the value system in society in general. Modern criminal justice systems pay special attention to the suppression of juvenile delinquency.

In this paper, the term juvenile delinquency will mean the behavior of minors that meets the characteristics of criminal offenses according to the current criminal legislation of the Republic of Srpska.