DYNAMICS OF JUVENILE CRIME IN REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA WITH AN EMPHASIS ON PHENOMENOLOGICAL CHARACHTERISTICS

Abstract

Juvenile crime poses a serious threat to society. Taking into account the fact that when we talk about juvenile crime the “actors” or more precisely the perpetrators are juveniles under the age of 18, it can therefore be concluded that these are children who from a very early age build their criminal career, get acquainted with different types of crimes and mostly commit crimes against property with the target of an easier way of satisfying their material (financial) needs. Тhis process brings another problem such as: building criminal career and becoming a professional criminal. From the phenomenological point of view in order to identify the forms of juvenile crime, it is important to mention the scope, dynamics, structure and characteristics of the juvenile crime in the Republic of North Macedonia in order to obtain a general picture of the situation. The key factor of increasing the number of perpetrators of crimes, apart from the main criminogenic factors, including poverty, wealth and unemployment from an etiological point of view, the most important think is the inefficiency of the system of punishment against juveniles, and not taking preventive measures from an early age towards the juveniles