Preliminary communication
Urban Way of Family Life and Juvenile Delinquency
Olga Petak
; Republički zavod za socijalni rad Zagreb, Ulica 8. maja 42
Abstract
Social processes important for the development of the so called capitalist industrial, that is the consumer city now, can be considered social factors of delinquent behavior among the minors. Primary forms of social life, together with the characteristics of a personality that are being adopted during the socialization, depend upon these processes, causing criminal factors. Showing that under the influence of these processes there is an important increase of underage delinquency in Jugoslavia as well, the author emphasizes characteristics of the processes concerning our development. The author has paid special attention to the economization of social consciousness with primary forms of social life falling to pieces; to the developing of aspirations for material standard by means of socialization; to destroying of the traditional system of social values and moral with dominating utilitarian orientations; to privacy; to nuclearization and break down of family; to the lack of positive social control, as well as to the other characteristics of urban way of living, considered by the author to be connected with the delinquent behavior of the minors.
Conscious, independent and purposeful social intervention aiming at the conditions of living and work of individuals and groups, with principals of solidarity and mutuality applied, should, according to the author, help to actuate those social processes and movements that would influence conditions and causes of delinquent behavior among the minors.
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Hrčak ID:
156296
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Publication date:
31.12.1975.
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