Characteristics of Juvenile Delinquency with Special Emphasis on Juveniles as Child Sexual Abusers

Abstract

The paper is composed of two parts. The first part covers juvenile delinquency with all its characteristics. When analyzing the delinquency, we gave a special place to the socio-pathological phenomena which is more and more present and the rate is higher from year to year. Social pathology is a huge issue that requires special commitment, first, for its detection and then prevention. Within the delinquency, we also cover the most common crimes committed by juveniles.

Keywords

• juvenile delinquency
• youth gang
• social pathology
• child sexual abuse
• pedophilia