Juvenile Delinquency in Romania: The Indirect Result of the Transition Process

Abstract

hen we try to discover the problems associated with juvenile delinquency should be very attentive towards the social, demographic, economical, and political situation of a certain society. Without these issues we would not be able to draw a real picture about the considered phenomenon, neither related to its qualitative, nor related to its quantitative evolution. In the same time represents an absolute necessity to consider the psychological factors of juvenile delinquency, as far as there are both social and psychological aspects involved into the phenomenon. Meanwhile is not less interesting how a society perceives the phenomenon and what thinks about the causes of juvenile delinquency. The paper follows these directions. W