Abstract
This paper discusses some General issues of organizing and conducting an empirical study of juvenile delinquency. Special attention is paid to the methodology of research of the problem related to the personality and career of a minor criminal. In particular, the authors consider the peculiarities of using sociological methods to find out the personal qualities of juvenile offenders and the reasons that led to their committing offenses and crimes.
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This paper discusses some General issues of organizing and conducting an empirical study of juvenile delinquency
The authors consider the peculiarities of using sociological methods to find out the personal qualities of juvenile offenders and the reasons that led to their committing offenses and crimes
We are witnessing the rapid spread of crime among modern youth, which is a consequence of the problems that young people face on the way to becoming a person and finding their place in life
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This paper discusses some General issues of organizing and conducting an empirical study of juvenile delinquency. The author studies violent behavior of young people in order to reconstruct delinquent career and identify risk factors The scientist makes his conclusions based on the results of the research using methods of analyzing official data and self-reports data. Perhaps one of the reasons for methodological difficulties in the study of juvenile delinquency is the lack of application of a set of sociological methods for collecting and analyzing information about the criminal’s identity, career, environment, and so on to explain the reasons for criminalizing human behavior and ways to prevent it. The specificity of solving these problems dictates the use of the appropriate methodology, which development is dedicated to this work
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