Offense Situation Experience as a Traumatic Event Among Adolescents Being in Conflict with the Law

Present article describes the results of the study of the experience of the situation of the offense by adolescents who have come into conflict with the law as a traumatic event. The study involved 129 adolescents 15-17 years. The target group included 31 15-16-year-olds on probation and 33 17-year-olds serving sentences in the Mozhaisk educational colony. The control group consisted of 32 teenagers 15 years 33 teenagers 17 and 32 students 21-23 years. The study carried out using the technique of Scale assessment of the impact of traumatic events (Impact of Event Scale-R, IES-R). The results obtained describe how adolescents, which committed a crime, perceive the situation of the offense, especially if it was associated with causing significant physical harm to a particular person. Adolescents serving sentences in a colony experience the most intense feelings about the situation of the offence, and their experiences are traumatic.