SOCIAL PREVENTION: SANCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY THEORIES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
SOCIAL PREVENTION: SANCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY THEORIES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

Summary/Abstract: Misguided education, lack of parental control or, on the contrary, excessive control, family abandonment, lack of psychosocial counselling of institutionalized youth, family disorganization, school absenteeism, poverty are the main causes that facilitate the social maladaptation of the child and his negative integration within the antisocial group. The confrontation of the minor with the family problems or of some institutionalized young people regarding the social counselling, how he is provided or not with the necessary conditions to be able to socialize as an adult, determines either the success, the positive social integration and the concordance with the social values, or the marginalization and deviance. It is the responsibility of the young generation to try to know the mechanisms of producing deviant behavior to help reduce the phenomenon. The intervention must be directed mainly towards primary prevention, i.e., taking measures of an anticipatory social nature. This involves a basic preventive strategy that through specific measures in the social, economic, cultural, educational fields, try to annihilate both the situations that generate delinquency and its deep roots. In other words, prevention must be addressed especially to potential offenders, both at the individual and micro-groups levels.

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