Juvenile delinquency: concept - About juvenile delinquency in the European Community

AuthorSimina Balint
PositionLecturer. University of Oradea
Pages11-17
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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: CONCEPT;
ABOUT JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITY
lecturer Simina Balint
University of Oradea
Abstract:
The term juvenile delinquency involves two distinct notions which must be
specified.
This is the concept of delinquency and of juvenile. Although both terms are
common language and seem to have well-determined and univocal significations,
they are often used with different meanings not only in current speaking, but also
in scientific language. In some works concerning juvenile delinquency the term of
predelinquency is also encountered. It designates in a same way either the minor’s
situation who, although commited a crime they are not charged due to the age, or
the minor’s situation who has an immoral behaviour, without being punished by
the penal law.
The instruments used by the Juvenile Justice of the United Nations, for
example: The Riyadh Directing Lines, The Beijing rules, offer the normative
framework for the children’s rights-using a specialized, separated and
distinguished juvenile justice administration.
Key words: juvenile delinquency, scientific language, juvenile justice
The analysis of the specific conditions in the societies put an emphasis on
the fact that in many countries the phenomena of deviance, marginalization,
delinquence and criminality are aggravated and extended. The increased processes
of change and transformation which accompany the evolution of any society have
lead to the development of new serious social phenomena, these forcing alarming
levels, especially in the countries recently libertated of the totalitarian system,
Romania included. The rapid process of transition has generated a crisis, which
affects especially teenagers and young people. An important source of this crisis is
represented by a certain valorical confusion regarding the ways of social promotion
in the new society and of the integration in the mature life or of preparing for such
a life. As a result, the delinquency has risen very much, giving teenagers a frame
with strong negative influences. Because of this, a special place in the area of
deviance is reserved by the research regarding juvenile delinquency, a phenomenon
with negative implications both for society and for the fate of young people.
The term of juvenile delinquency includes two abstract notions which have
to be mentioned: the concept of “delinquency” and that of “juvenile”. Although
both terms have entered the common vocabulary and seem to have well-determined

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