Problematic aspects of protecting minors from the threat of criminality
Under modern conditions, there exist a multitude of factors that explain why juvenile delinquents are getting younger and younger in the country; the level of aggression and violence in teenage environments is on the rise, and flaws in the system of early prevention of their deviant behavior have conspicuously manifested themselves. Research shows that the degree of criminality in the behavior of adolescents committing socially dangerous actions is at a high point. Intensified by the conflictual nature of teens, this peculiarity leads to an increase in selfish and violent forms of socially threatening behavior. This pattern largely determines the negative trend of both juvenile delinquency and crime in general, which contributes to maintaining a high level of violent crime. Under modern conditions, effectiveness of preventive work is lost mainly due to the subsystem for the early prevention of juvenile delinquency, since a significant gap has arisen between what measures need to be taken and what measures actually are taken in order to have an early educational and preventive impact on adolescents with deviant behavior. In the modern policy of the state, the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen who has suffered harm from a crime are not a priority, therefore its role remains merely auxiliary, put into the service of public interest by way of punishing the criminal. Statistics show that the scale of criminal victimization of minors considerably exceeds the amount of adolescent criminality.