Problems of Prevention of Group Juvenile Delinquency

The given article explores the issues of group juvenile delinquency and the problems of compulsory and preventive effects on this type of crime. The author of the article attempts to reveal the dynamics and tendency in the development of crimes which are committed by adolescents in autonomous and mixed groups. Some difficulties in the determining of the trends of the development of group crimes and the lack of independent accounting of the types of group juvenile delinquency are noted. The characteristic of the dynamics of the investigated type of crime is based on the comparative analysis of the data of the juvenile delinquency and also the cases provided in the reports of law enforcement agencies and officials. The authors state the increasing danger of group forms of crimes committed by adolescents and emphasize the necessity of taking some significant measures to counteract them. The important directions of compulsory and preventive activity in relation to group types of juvenile crimes are investigated, the effectiveness and its predicted potential in the terms of its future activation are assessed by the authors. Giving preference to measures of early compulsory and preventive activity the authors emphasize the need of consolidation of public and state structures in the direction of solving the discussed question.