Towards a model of justice for people under the legal age

• Author: Luminita Elena Petrescu
• Position: Assistant Professor, Ph.D. student, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, Ovidius University, Constanta
• Pages: 203-208

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TOWARDS A MODEL OF JUSTICE FOR PEOPLE

UNDER THE LEGAL AGE

Assistant Professor LuminiYa Elena Petrescu – Ph.D. student

Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences

Ovidius University, ConstanYa

Abstract:

In a world in which all institutions and social relations change rapidly, the

family also undergoes certain transformations. Thus, we witness the adaptation of

individual behaviour and lifestyles to demographic, economic and social changes,

which affect contemporary societies; we also become aware of the multiplication

and diversity of family patterns, the new models co-existing with the so-called

classical one.

As far as our society is concerned, the family pattern has moved from an

extended structure (within which the rapports between generations used to be

governed by stable traditions and moral, spiritual, educational and material values

through “unwritten laws”), either towards a small family of the classical type or

towards atypical forms, such as single-parent families.

Because of these changes, the responsibilities of the family, as a social

institution, have been lost. Especially its educational role has been affected. Taking

into account that family education, which begins early in a person’s life,

determines the development of one’s personality, it is a fact that the consequences

are worth worrying about.

The usefulness of this project is related to the assumptions that the flaws in

family education play an essential role in the crimes committed by people under

age.

Moreover, we have highlighted the negative results of the decrease of

family education on the social integration of people under age, with a view to

adapt the prevention system to this form of social reality.

We consider that this brief study could serve as guidelines for complex

research on the etiological approach of criminal behaviour, as individual or group

manifestation, and of under age criminality as a global phenomenon.

Staring from the fact that the elimination of causes must gain field in

parallel with the minimization of effects, we have pinpointed the importance of the

creation of a project of juvenile crime prevention, whose main objective should be

the recuperation of the family educational role, besides other objectives, so that the

entire problematic of the concern for the people under age and the crime

prevention among this category should become part of unitary and rigorous action.

Key words: education, crime, rehabilitation, mediation