Some Aspects of the Juvenile Delinquency in Albania

Bledar Mustafaraj

doi:10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n1s2p105

Abstract

The phenomenon of the juvenile delinquency in the Republic of Albania, likewise the other countries of the world, has been persisting and evolving induced by a variety of factors featuring both the individuals and the society, in the objective circumstances of which minors create their own personalities. Minors are human beings in a growing and developing process characterized by certain crossroads leading them to the age of maturity. The respective society circumstances and its many problems have an obvious effect into the delicate process of minors’ growth and development. It is for this reason that understanding everything regarding the “minor” problem requires both technical cognition and human skills. The behavioral negative aspects drawing people’s attention can generally be observed more in youth rather than in the adult ages. Moreover, it would be better considering the present-day juvenile delinquency as the tomorrow’s adult criminality. The aim of this study is to consider juvenile delinquency as a concept, theoretically, summarized and as a phenomenon having its own specific causes, alongside understanding the infant delinquent’s figure and personality. By means of the statistical data, it is possible to reveal the most consumed penal acts committed by minors in the Republic of Albania. This work will be introduced according to the following structure; Understanding juvenile delinquency and its distinctions from other similar concepts; The profile of juvenile delinquents; Volume and types of the penal acts committed by minors in Albania; Juvenile delinquency in terms of gender; Recommendations concerning the juvenile delinquency problems in the Albanian state. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n1s2p105

Highlights

There is no doubt that criminality is one of the most obvious social phenomena exacerbating the actual society as well as one of the most treated criminological problems by since the XIX century and on
Minors’ criminality is a worldwide phenomenon, persisting both in big and industrialized cities and in the less developed areas, in rich and high-class families and in the poorest ones; it is a phenomenon featuring all the social strata, devoid of exception1. In this point of view, in the Republic of Albania as well, the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency has been persisting in the same ways as in the other countries of the world, induced by a variety of factors linked both with the individual as well as with the society and with the objective circumstances in which minors are grown and brought up and in which build up their personalities
Volume and types of the penal acts committed by minors in Albania;

Summary

Introduction

There is no doubt that criminality is one of the most obvious social phenomena exacerbating the actual society as well as one of the most treated criminological problems by since the XIX century and on. By since 14 years of age, which make up the lowest age limit of minority, the minors’ mental abilities evolve vehemently until reaching 18 years of age, which is considered the age when minors’ intellectual development to comprehend the gravity of criminal offences has been completed Above this age limit, the criminological treatment of the penal offences and of the persons who have committed them, shows that the study of the juvenile delinquency should not be limited solely to cognizing juvenile criminal offences committed, the means used to perform them or their consequences, but even to determine the features of the persons who have committed them, the scale of their abilities as well as their personality. The situation of individuals that Park qualifies as marginalized and which persist between two or more cultures differing from each other and, by alternatively applying the rules of the one or the other, can be included in anomie, as well, as in the cases of ethnic minorities, (Roma, etc.) 23

Profile of Juvenile Delinquent

Juvenile Delinquency in Terms of Gender

Findings

Recommendations Concerning the Juvenile Delinquency Problems