The criminological aspects of juvenile delinquency

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency is one of the inexhaustible social and historical curiosities that, conditionally speaking, survives from the earliest times to the present day. In this paper, two typical criminological levels of the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency are going to be presented - etiological and phenomenological context. Given that this is a fairly broad topic and phenomenon, this paper is going to present only the most striking aspects of the etiology and phenomenology of juvenile delinquency. The significance of the research of juvenile delinquency in modern science is all the greater bearing in mind the trends of politicization of this phenomenon with the aim of often tendentious spread of moral panic, as well as sensationalist media reporting. In that context, not only classical, but also contemporary discourse related to the problem of this research is going to be presented in order to explain the issues related to this phenomenon and at the same time demystify the obscure allegations that take place in society.