Megatrend Revija (Jan 2022)
Recidivism of criminal offenses in juvenile delinquency
Abstract
Recidivism of juvenile offenders in the domestic professional literature is an insufficiently researched socially unacceptable phenomenon, in relation to the crime of adults. Although juvenile delinquency is widespread in countries around the world and even in our country, statistics show that there is a large disproportion in the prevalence of recidivism of juvenile offenders in total crime. Recidivism is a phenomenon that can be studied from the aspect of several areas such as criminal law, criminology, penology, however, for the purposes of this paper, the focus is on criminal law science. The aim of this paper is to point out the very concept and development of recidivism in minors from the aspect of legal science. However, Through this paper, we will try to present in more detail the types of crimes and areas of crime, where juveniles most oft en appear as returnees in execution.
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