Annual of social work, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1996.
Original scientific paper
“ECOLOGICAL VIEW” ON CHILDREN’S AND YOLJTH DELINQUENCYIN COUNTY OF ISTRIA
Ivan Magdalenić
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article analyses data on some characteristics of children’s and minors’ juvenile delinquency in County oflstria within the period between 1988 and 1994. This analysis is preceded by description ofthe main socio-demographic characteristics ofthe area. Results show that the picture ofthe State of children’s and minors’ delinquency in some of it's aspects differs from theoretical expectations, and in some others it is “contradictory” sincefor no smaller part ofthe area can be said without doubt that the situation in that part is “the best” or “the worst”. Also, on the basis of comparative data for the whole ofCroatia it is not possible to State with certainty that the Istrian situation is in ali aspects “better” or “worse". Still, the “pure male minor rate” (which includes approximately two thirds of total criminal acts committed by children and minors ofboth sexes) is significantly higher than the State average. On the basis ofthe entire analysis the author concludes that the State of children’s and minors’ delinquency in Istria needs further, more detailed and methodologically more complex, research.
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198152
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Publication date:
9.12.1996.
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