CHILD NEGLIGENCE AND CRIMINAL ONSET IN EX-PRISONERS’ EARLY LIFE STORIES
CHILD NEGLIGENCE AND CRIMINAL ONSET IN EX-PRISONERS’ EARLY LIFE STORIES

Summary/Abstract: Sociological analyzes of the etiology of criminal behavior are distinguished by a number of criminogenic factors, among which a particular importance is attributed to the environmental context of the individual’s functioning. The initiation of criminal activity frequently takes place in the period of early youth. Hence, special attention is paid to individual’s relations in socializing environments. At the same time, studies and analyzes of biographies of criminals indicate that a significant part of offenders were raised in communities experiencing deep marginalization in many important aspects of functioning in social life, thus providing further evidence for the long-recognized connections of social exclusion and crime processes. The aim of the article is to characterize the environmental conditions of entering the path of conflict with the law in the biographies of criminals. The author refers to empirical material collected in the course of his own research – narrative interviews with convicts and former prisoners.

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