The evolution of the juvenile delinquency and the settlement of a different penal treatement

• Author: Laura Roxana Popoviciu
• Position: Candidate to PhD lecturer, AGORA University
• Pages: 214-217

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THE EVOLUTION OF THE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND

THE SETTLEMENT OF A DIFFERENT PENAL TREATMENT

Candidate to PhD lecturer Laura Roxana Popoviciu

AGORA University

Abstract:

The juvenile delinquency is one of the deviance forms, having great

implications over both the individual and groups; the deviant behaviour refers to

different conduct forms that are closely passing by the norms in a culture, that

correspond to social roles and statuses, very well established in the given culture.

It is a type of conduct that is opposite to the conventional and conformist one that

consist not only in law breaking, but also in any "deviation" conduct without any

pathologic character that was medically established and represents a digression

from the social rules, being defined and resented like this by the social group

members.

Key words: deviant behaviour, pathologic character, penal responsibility

The practice, also the study of the special papers, reveal the fact that the

social phenomena, found within the concept of deviance, delinquency, infraction,

criminality, preoccupy more and more not only the specialists in this field, but also

the political, governmental factors, the public opinion, generally, both internal,

regional level and international level1.

An important part of these preoccupations consist in the juvenile

delinquency or the infractions committed by underage, mostly because this one has

become, in the last decades one of the major social problems that most of the

contemporary societies had to confront and still do, both economically developed

and less developed ones, at a global level, the juvenile delinquency reaching the

ages between 19-29 years.

Starting form these concepts, due to the fact that the infantile delinquency

has reached, in the last decades, very alarming levels, we can talk about a global

phenomena of the juvenile delinquency.

Even though the juvenile delinquency concept is frequently used, it is not

reflected in the special literature in our country.

In this way, the Criminal Code has adopted the concept of underage that

establishes the Vth Title of the Criminal Code the juridical treatment of the

underage that have a criminal responsibility.

1 http://www.cnaa.acad.md/files/theses/2007/6001/oxana_rotaru_thesis.pdf