Hrychaniuk M. Mechanism of Counteracting Juvenile Delinquency

The dissertation is a comprehensive criminological research of the mechanism of counteracting juvenile delinquency, in the course of which the author has carried out theoretical generalization and has provided a practical vision of its features and regularities, has formulated a number of conceptual conclusions, propositions and recommendations aimed at achieving the objective of the dissertation research. The concept of the mechanism of counteracting juvenile delinquency covers not only its components and basic characteristics, but also the ideology, ontological foundations and the most important conditions for the construction and functioning of such a mechanism. Besides, provided arguments are grounded on the position on the dynamics, functionality and complexity of the mechanism of counteracting juvenile delinquency and the interdependence of these characteristics. On the basis of the mentioned above the author has stated that the increase of the effectiveness of functioning of socio-legal mechanism of counteracting juvenile delinquency is a pressing and urgent problem of society, the solution of which is in various interconnected areas: socio-political, socio-economic, ideological, moral and psychological and others. Its solution will allow to control the development of the criminal situation associated with juvenile delinquency, to create objective grounds for a successful counteraction, to eliminate and to neutralize the causes and conditions that give rise to it.