Dubchak L. Improvement of educational institutions' activities aimed at preventing juvenile delinquency in Ukraine.

Тhe juvenile delinquency is a subsysteme of general delinquency, distinguished by a peculiar determinant complex. It forms the reserve of delinquency of adults. During the last years the juvenile delinquency has been reduced (from 32,3 thousand crimes in 2002 to 19,6 thousand crimes in 2006), but the number of grave crimes is rather high. The author presents her own classification of juvenile delinquents according to different criteria. The thesis also includes the complex criminological assessment of activity of educational institutions of various types and levels of accreditation as subjects aimed at preventing juvenile delinquency in Ukraine. The objective and subjective drawbacks of educational institutions' activities are defined. Ways of the improvement of educational institutions' activities aimed at preventing criminality of minors are investigated. They are presented as an integrated mechanism (conceptual model) of improvement of educational institutions' activities aimed at preventing criminality of minors in four spaces: normative (legal), active (practical), staff-organizational and valuable-orientated. Recommendations concerning the optimization of the system of preventive works of educational institutions with minors are given which include: close cooperation of educational institution with family; profound leisure of children, their participation in pupil's (student's) self-administration; professionally-orientated work with graduates; preventive work with pupils at elementary school; deep learning the individual-psychologic, age and sexual peculiarities of juvenile delinquents; legal, sex, civic, labour, esthetic education of juveniles; victimological prevention of cruel manners with children; prevention of juvenile drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution, suicides, etc. The necessity to reorganize the psychological service into the service of complex advice and support is defended. Suggestions on the improvement of current legislation which regulates activity of educational institutions aimed at preventing juvenile delinquency in Ukraine are introduced.