Uwarunkowania i tendencje do brutalizacji zachowań dzieci i młodzieży (w okresie transformacji ustrojowej w Polsce)
Conditions and tendencies of brutalization of children's and teenagers' behaviours (in the period of system transformation in Poland)

Summary/Abstract: This study resulting from a threat to the feeling of safety subjectively felt by the citizens, constitutes an attempt to identify key trends of the phenomenon of aggressive behaviour of children and teenagers during a system transformation in Poland after the year 1989. They include among others: dynamics of an increase in brutal behaviours of the minors, decrease in the age of crime initiation, committing crimes with a special cruelty, increase in brutal behaviours towards adults, including teachers, exclusion of the adults’ partnership and influence on the children’s and teenagers’ attitude, increase in aggression and violent tendencies among girls, popularization of the phenomenon of teenage and criminal prostitution, paying by the minors, the weakest social group, in a specific way the costs of necessary system transformations. The author of this publication (a former form master, pedagogue and a director of rehabilitation unit), on the basis of gained experience supported by an analysis of literature, presents motives of crimes committed by the minors, a new specification of modern criminality of the Polish teenagers, selected symptoms, forms and examples of reevaluation of the minors’ attitudes and behaviours. He draws attention to negative general-civilization and sociocultural sources of an increase in the brutalization of the minors’ behaviours as defectively adapted potential wards of corrective educational and reformatory-rehabilitation institutions.

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