| Abstract [eng] |
Social life of and relationships among people are regulated by laws. Ignorance of law or wrong interpretation of it does not exempt a person from responsibility for the commited violation of law. As shown by case law and various researches, one of the reasons for juvenile delinquency is that they poorly know legal norms, incorrectly understand statutory requirements and responsibility for violation of them. Scientists determined the way of youths to the violation of law – antisocial attitudes are forming from ten to twelve (sometimes more) years of age. Under certain conditions, antisocial manifestations of a person may develop into crime. Crimin al justice is the final means preventing crimes don e by juveniles. The main attention should be paid to the early prevention of crime, to noticing the first signs of improper education conditions when it is still possible to prevent violation of law or commiting of crime on time. Various biological, psychological and sociological theories analysed why a person becomes a criminal, attempted to identify their characteristic features, classified criminals into those who are profession al criminals and those who are merely “accidental” offenders of law. Anthropological trend of crimin al law theory that emerged in the XIX century strongly influenced the science of criminal law. The main proposition of this theory was that a criminal is a representative of a particular human kind having only biological features characteristic to it. C. Lombroso, the father of an anthropological investigation in criminology and in criminal law, attempted to distinguish different types of criminals. Classifying the forms of skull, the length and hairiness of arms and fingers, the shape of ears and similar features, he stated that is possible to foresee what crime will be done by that person in future. |
