Modern trends of development of criminal subculture and its negative impact on juvenile delinquency

The article discusses the influence of socio–economic changes on the decline in living standards and moral beliefs of society contributing to the development of criminal subculture, which influences juvenile delinquency. The results of the study showed that the development of criminal behaviour of a person from the perception of certain units of behaviour in the process of socialisation. So, the family influence on the formation of teenager’s attitude to the actions expressed in the lack of attention and love or hyperopic. Antisocial behaviour of minors is due to psychological immaturity, aggressiveness, over–confidence, indifference, and misunderstanding of the environment cause dissatisfaction with their status, which provokes a decision to seek recognition in the criminal community is the main mechanism which the involvement of minors in criminal activity. Statistical analysis confirms that anti–social adolescent behaviour often ends with criminal prosecution. Studies have shown that the media have a pronounced criminogenic effect on consciousness, indirectly stimulate the crime, change the ideology of minors. The positive experience of European countries shows that the main measure to prevent the propagation of norms and values of the criminal subculture is the control over mass media.

These trends contribute to the growing influence of criminal attitudes and criminal world of minors. Thus, the policy of the state, the efforts of society should be aimed at preventing and combating the spread of criminal subculture in the minds of juveniles through the formation of confidence in the future, development of legal culture and legal consciousness.