Juvenile delinquency

Nika Brachuli

Faculty of law

Ilia state university

Tbilisi, 2016

Juvenile delinquency
 Juvenile delinquency is an issue of the day worldwide. I will talk
about reasons of juvenile delinquency and what ways do Georgia and
Germany use to fight against it. I chose this subject, because I want to
know why youths turn into criminals and how does the government fight
against it.
In Germany juvenile delinquency means criminal people from age
14 to 17. Criminal researches show that most common crimes for juvenile
delinquency are: stealing, physical injuries and also some serious crimes
like murder. So why do youths under age of 18 commit to crime? The
reasons behind juvenile delinquency often have do not have a single
reason, its caused by many factors, those are multi-layered and hard to
name. Social factors are playing big role in lives of young people for
example: poorness, media, bad integration into society, low education
level and especially family violence. Consumption of violent films and
violent videogames have a strong influence on the youths under the age
of 18. They tend to bring the violence from movies and games into real
life. In fact over 95% of youths play video games and more than half of
these youths have played violent games.
In Germany, criminals under the age of 18 are not punished as hard
as criminals over the age of 18. The reason behind this is simple, the
government thinks that its better to Convince under aged criminals to
change their behaviour using the German prevention. In Georgia and in
Germany people over the age of 14 are responsible for their crimes. In
Georgia under aged criminals get only hard punishment, while in Germany
they get light penalty alongside the preventive measure. German method
of fighting against juvenile delinquency has developed over years of hard
work and the statistic shows that it was worth the invested time, the
crime number from 1990 to 2000 years were over 12 000 but in 2015 the
number decreased to 2000.
In my opinion hard punishment alone is not going to solve the
problem, we need to understand why under aged people commit to crimes
and start solving the background reasons rather than just punishing them.
I think that German method of fighting against juvenile delinquency using
prevention and light penalty is way better than only a hard punishment,
youths need help not a punishment.

Sources
*Jugendkriminalitt Zahlen und Fakten-
http://www.bpb.de/politik/innenpolitik/gangsterlaeufer/203562/zahlen-und-
fakten?p=all
*22 Charts & Graphs on Video Games & Youth Violence
-http://videogames.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=003627
*Jugendkriminalitt - http://elearn.hawk-
hhg.de/projekte/58/pages/ursachen-gruende.php
*Causes and Solutions of Juvenile Delinquency -
http://readingcraze.com/index.php/cause-and-solution-of-juvenile-
delinquency/