Youthful offenses or minors’ offenses We call the illegal behavior of people who have not completed the law -billed adulthood limit. This is a worrying phenomenon because of the massive character it tends to acquire nowadays, as it is presented to people younger and younger, and their actions are becoming increasingly violent. Two modern forms of juvenile delinquency are the establishment of gangs of minors, as well as the growing violence in the school environment, phenomena particularly extensive in some states and complex in their investigation and treatment.
Juvenile delinquency is one of the forensic problems that are increasingly concerned with the international community, and there are many the texts of international organizations that have been dealing with the issue to date. The phenomenon, since the last century, has been internationally the subject of continuous observation and research. It should be noted that young people’s behaviors often gain more social importance than adult behaviors, especially if they are negative, and thus creates a particularly negative social perception of offenses.
The intensity of phenomena, such as that of violent organized gangs of minors, has led some states – in which the premises around schools, as well as the school yards themselves, even in the privileged districts, have become out -of -law zones – at the onset of dialogue on the need for reform. The escalation that nowadays occurs the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency requires effective and convincing answers, which must be built mainly around three axes of action: prevention, criminal – pedagogical measures and social reintegration – integration of minors.
Over a million children are in some kind of detention worldwide. Minors at youth detention centers are sometimes subjected to many of the same penalties as adults, such as isolation, despite the minority even the existence of some kind of disability. Children in custody have degraded or non -existent school education, leave school or fail to complete secondary education.
Regardless of the depiction of official statistics, today in Europe it is widespread to perceive that there is a progressive increase in youthful delinquency and that the violations of young people are increasingly serious. In the face of this situation, citizens are demanding more effective control mechanisms, which has mobilized many countries in the direction of tightening their legislation for minor offenders.
It is extremely difficult to determine the accurate factors due to the delinquency of minors and this is because the abusive behavior of children and adolescents takes place in the context of a complex process of socialization and social control. However, under no circumstances is the minor offender is a social “patient”, whose behavior is due to physical, mental or mental abnormalities.
In order to analyze the behavior of minors – transnational or not – we need to look at the family, school, friendly and social environment in which they are developing. But in our time there are exogenous agents’ environment – such as the media, technology and especially the internet – that land it abruptly in the adult world, which often causes its violent reaction.
The main factors of the delinquency of minors refer to the disorientation, the lack of communication and the promotion of suitable patterns within the family, often due to the absence of parents, the psychopathological problems associated with the abuse and sexual harassment of Unemployment, the social exclusion, the particular tendency of mimicry developed by young people in trying to shape their personality, personality disorders associated with alcohol and drug consumption, and the promotion of unnecessary, excessive and unjustified and unjustified.
Here, however, be careful about who are the real factors on the basis of which the juvenile delinquency is explained. For example, it is not the frequent physical absence of parents or the single parent family that is necessarily a factor in delinquency, but the essential inability of parents to cope with their children’s duties or the absence of a healthy and qualitative relationship – because It is not the student’s failure on its own, but the inability of the education system to prevent stigmatization and marginalization. Finally, it is not the identity of the immigrant that contributes to the manifestation of offenses, but its social marginalization.