PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF JUVENILE DELIQUENCY

Abstract

The phenomenon of juvenile delinquency is of great significance for humanity in general and especially for modern Ukrainian society. The process of building the country is accompanied by objective difficulties, crisis phenomena in the economy and other industries, deformations of social consciousness. As a result, the most vulnerable groups of the population are children who are negatively affected. The main cause of juvenile delinquency is improper parenting, lack of parental care for children, material deprivation, negative impact of the environment in the absence of moral barriers. Negative changes in qualitative and quantitative individual and psychological indicators of the identity of juvenile offenders are also important.