Abstract
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. In the second part of this paper, the authors deal in more details with a specific form of crime which can also be committed by juveniles: child sexual abuse and pedophilia. First, the difference between child sexual abuse and pedophilia will be discussed, a difference that is of particular importance in cases where minors are abusers. Furthermore, the main characteristics of cases when both perpetrators and victims of sexual abuse are minors will be addressed. Although these criminal offenses are rarer in practice unlike the criminal offenses and deviant behaviors treated in the first part, however, knowing the main characteristics and specifics of such cases is of particular importance for the legal-criminal treatment of the perpetrators of these criminal offenses.
Highlights
Delinquency is a synonym for juvenile offenders
Research suggests a potential link between pedophilia and the commission of the crime of child sexual abuse since younger age, when child sexual abuse is committed by a minor, we must keep in mind that such a perpetrator is not always considered a pedophile
In this paper we determine that delinquency is a complex phenomenon
Summary
Delinquency is a synonym for juvenile offenders. It is important to emphasize that delinquency is a heterogeneous phenomenon, as well as one of the key problems of modern societies which shows a growing trend in the past few years. One of the most important issues regarding juvenile delinquency that should be emphasized is that delinquency should be distinguished from crime because delinquency is more complex phenomena and covers: misdemeanors, crimes, and social pathological phenomena. When child abusers are children themselves or rather said juveniles, due to the characteristics of juveniles which will be elaborated in this paper, such a criminal policy that applies to adults cannot be applied to juveniles in sexually abusing children. This issue is the topic of elaboration in the second part of this paper. Let us first investigate the general characteristics of juvenile delinquency
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