Delincvența juvenilă sau „problema copilului deviat moral“ în România interbelică
Juvenile delinquency or „the problem of the morally deviant child“ in interwar Romania

Summary/Abstract: During the XXth century, juvenile delinquency has become one of the most worrisome social problems. During the Interwar period, the Romanian elite has made consistent efforts to analyse and design the proper strategies in order to cope with this phenomenon. Different categories of professionals, concerned with what they believed to be a serious threat to the society, have drawn attention on the importance of the child's personality and social environment, when faced with juvenile delinquency. These intellectuals started pleading for special measures for juvenile offenders, promoting the idea that the punishment should be replaced with an effort to re-educate and rehabilitate, in order for them to become harmless and useful individuals. This perspective has been adopted by social and criminal law, in an attempt to supervise and control marginal communities, perceived as dangerous and prone to violence and criminality.

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