Considerations on child and juvenile criminality in the light of statistics

Abstract

Aim: The purpose of the study is to examine the new phenomena of child and juvenile delinquency in the light of the social changes induced by the Covid–19 epidemic.Methodology: The authors investigated the phenomenon using the method of statistical data analysis and source processing.Findings: In recent decades, juvenile delinquency has decreased, which was not substantially affected by the pandemic. As a consequence of the epidemic, the authors detected qualitative changes in the criminality of teenagers, and from the radical increase in children in the past year, it can be concluded that the restrictions and economic changes accompanying the epidemic will have a longer-term effect on criminal deviance.Value: The findings of the study may contribute to the understanding of how the limitation of social relationships, existential uncertainty affecting families and school education without personal presence affect the lives of significant number of adolescents.