FORENSIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CRIMES COMMITTED BY MINORS
In the article, the author analyzes the conditions conducive to the manifestation of juvenile delinquency; the entry of a comprehensive study of this issue, the author concludes that instability, instability in family relations, leading to the breakdown of the family, primarily affects children. Ultimately, a single-parent family, unwittingly, often becomes one of the suppliers of juvenile delinquents. In the course of analyzing the materials of criminal cases, the author comes to the conclusion that most of the juvenile criminals were brought up in single-parent families or were orphans, including social ones, parents or close relatives living with minors had alcohol or drug addiction, were prosecuted. The studied material helped the author to develop the main elements of the criminalistics characteristics of juvenile delinquency and to determine the motives for the criminalization of the juvenile's personality.