Factors associated with juvenile delinquency

Abstract

It is a known fact that all over the world juvenile delinquency is on the increase. It is a scourge of which society has been forced to become aware by bitter experience. The threat which it presents to each and every member of society should serve to remind us of the importance of criminological research which is being carried out in this field. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has expressed the wish that the European Committee on Crime Problems should continue its work in the field of juvenile delinquency. Today society is producing young people who emerge into adulthood better educated and more capable of standing on their own two feet than ever before. In this article I shall deal mainly with the casualties of the so dal system, but we must not forget its successes.