Modern Patterns of Delinquent Behavior and Criminogenic Factors in the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention System

Juvenile crime holds a special place in the general system of crime prevention because it contributes to the destabilization of domestic social climate, leads to a disbalance in providing the right value-legal guidance for the new generation as the basis for the future sustainable development of the country, which should ideally live without criminal propaganda or a spread of unacceptable forms of behavior. The authors describe modern criminogenic factors of juvenile delinquency as well as the specific features of the system of their prevention. The subject of the research is the regularities of delinquent behavior and criminogenic factors contributing to the spread of juvenile crime. The authors also prove the necessity of analyzing new types of deviant behavior in order to understand the scope of their influence on the life orientations and morals of minors, as well as the problems of their socialization. It is shown that the regularities of deviant behavior of minors lie in the cultural archaization connected with the growing speech of social contacts and the intensification of information exchange processes, which leads to the emergence of various subcultures in the youth environment. The research of the transformation of legal and moral guidelines of juveniles should be based on the conceptual, organizational-legal and theoretical conclusions and take into consideration the analysis of the influence of modern teenage subcultures on the development of personal deformities of juveniles with the purpose of involving them in the criminal environment. It is noted that when juveniles reject the dominant Russian culture and develop their own minor “cultures”, it becomes a prerequisite for the development of delinquent forms of behavior aggravated by the negative examples of others and the defects of a juvenile’s socialization. The authors name the criminal subculture as one of the criminogenic determinants. They prove the danger of its spread and outline the necessity of further research in order to prevent it from penetrating the social environment of juveniles. It is concluded that the psychology of juveniles is vulnerable in the conditions of a large-scale spread of destructive information and the dependence of delinquent behavior on the degree of influence of specific criminogenic factors, which determine criminal activities. The regularities of criminal behavior of juveniles are analyzed from the social-economic, political, legal, psychological and cultural-moral standpoints.