NEPILNAMEČIŲ NUSIKALSTAMUMO PREVENCIJOS AKTUALIJOS LIETUVOJE
TOPICALITY OF JUVENILE CRIME PREVENTION IN LITHUANIA

Summary/Abstract: Juvenile criminality in Lithuania is still increasing though not so rapidly. Society is troubled by the decreasing age of criminals and brutalization of the nature of crimes. Children commit crimes for various reasons (objective and subjective). Lawyers and sociologists are of the opinion that there are plenty enough of factors which can influence criminal behaviour. The factors are following: disengagement of children and teenagers; insufficient control of a family and upbringing institutions; infringement of children rights; considerable property and social differentiation of a family; world-view formed by the media; influence of informal groups; violence in a family; poverty; prevailing illusion of impunity; alcoholism, etc. Therefore dis-harmony and instability in families and total neglect of their children upbringing are the main reasons stimulating juvenile crime. Environment where children grow and people who communicate and spend leisure time with them have great inf-luence too. Nowadays the existing system of juvenile crime prevention is characterized as departmental, insufficiently coor-dinated and fragmentary. It is necessary to coordinate and con-centrate this system in a basis of one department, for instance in a basis of the Department of Police. In pursuance of the effecti-veness of the prevention, it is necessary to incorporate the requi-rements of international law instruments to national law deeds and to implement them practically.

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