Open AccessSelected issues of juvenile delinquency proceedings
Author(s) -
Joanna Rajewska de Mezer
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
studia edukacyjne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-6984
pISSN - 1233-6688
DOI - 10.14746/se.2018.48.15
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , punitive damages , criminology , juvenile , norm (philosophy) , state (computer science) , psychology , identity (music) , political science , sociology , social psychology , law , computer science , physics , algorithm , biology , acoustics , genetics
This paper discusses selected issues of juvenile delinquency proceedings. It points the reader’s attention to the difference in the approach towards a juvenile offender. This different approach consists in shaping the way the state reacts to them breaking a legal norm and directing it towards resocializing education. It underlines the specific characteristics of the interactions’ subject – a juvenile whose identity and social attitudes are in the making. These features justify the fact that educational and reformatory measures based on the law on juvenile delinquency proceedings are applied in their case, rather than the punitive ones defined in the Penal Code. The paper analyses selected topics related to executing specific (educational or reformatory) measures that spark controversy among the entities that take up educational, activating and aid-related actions.