PRAVA MALOLJETNIH PRESTUPNIKA KROZ PRIZMU RESOCIJALIZACIJE
THE RIGHTS OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS THROUGH THE PRISM OF RESOCIALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: Juvenile delinquency, as a negative social phenomenon, means a form of criminal behavior by minors. This form of juvenile behavior is a social problem in every country. Special attention is paid to juvenile delinquency, by all European Union countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is still in the transition period. Contemporary literature defines juvenile delinquency as an impermissible phenomenon, i.e. from maladjusted to incriminated behavior. One of the understandings of such maladaptive behavior also refers to behaviors that are contrary to the usual and prescribed forms of behavior in society. Juvenile delinquency, as a form of socially unacceptable behavior, is a current socially negative phenomenon, which should certainly impose a need in the future for even greater involvement of the social community, and in order to act through state institutions to resolve the increasingly frequent cases of juvenile delinquency in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The criminal law position of juvenile offenders, both in modern criminal legislation and in the legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, differs from the criminal law position of adult offenders. In terms of juvenile delinquency in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the previous period attention to this issue was also contributed by changes in the criminal legislation of the entities of Republika Srpska, the Federation of BiH and Brĉko District, which treat the rights, position, resocialization and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, in the sense of setting aside juvenile legislation from general criminal law provisions to special legislation on minors. This legislation is reflected in the new Lawon Juveniles, as lex special is, but which was still absent with changes at the state level. This change provided a normative-legal framework for the adequate treatment of the problem of juvenile delinquency. Also, within the framework of the general purpose of criminal sanctions against juvenile offenders, it is especially determined that the purpose of criminal sanctions is to influence the strengthening of personal responsibility, education and proper development of minors, all with the aim of resocialization, rehabilitation and his reintegration into the social community.

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