THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY IN THE EMERGENCE OF CHILDHOOD CRIME WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE REPUBLIC NORTH MACEDONIA IN THE PERIOD FROM 2010 TO 2017 Cover Image

УЛОГАТА НА СЕМЕЈСТВОТО ЗА ПОЈАВАТА НА ДЕТСКОТО ПРЕСТАПНИШТВО СО ПОСЕБЕН ОСВРТ НА РЕПУБЛИКА СЕВЕРНА МАКЕДОНИЈА ВО ПЕРИОДОТ ОД 2010 ДО 2017 ГОДИНА
THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY IN THE EMERGENCE OF CHILDHOOD CRIME WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE REPUBLIC NORTH MACEDONIA IN THE PERIOD FROM 2010 TO 2017

Author(s): Gordana Lažetić, Olga Koševaliska
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Criminology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite
Keywords: family; parent; child; crime; juvenile delinquency; divorce
Summary/Abstract: Families are of prime importance being the microsocial structure where a child is born and raised. The family plays mayor role in providing children with proper growth, education, upbringing and socialization. Children develop an appropriate behavior if they are brought up in a family environment that is harmonious; where the child holds the prime position in the family, with a positive and constructive family atmosphere, with psychological, social and moral matureness of the parents as well as stable financial conditions. Families are the creator of the circumstances in which the child develops, they are creators of environment that will be considered as protective and will influence in building resistance to the risks surrounding the child. From the quality of the relations in family depends on whether the family will have a protective role or is a crime factor, and even a core of a criminal infection. Unfortunately, the modern family is faced with an increasingly intense weakening of its educational function. This article aims to analyze the role of the family in juvenile delinquency, firstly from the theoretical point of view, in order to then test the theoretical theses in reality through a statistical analysis of the influence of the family on juvenile delinquency in the period from 2010 to 2017 in the Republic of North Macedonia.