Juvenile delinquency as one of the types of crime in the Russian Federation and its specificity
This article examines the concept of crime in general, juvenile delinquency in particular, and presents the author's personal typology of juvenile offenders. The author notes that such kind of crime as juvenile delinquency is always in the centre of the great scientist's attention, ‘cause the young generation is a natural reserve of social development. Violations of the criminal law by persons of a young age, their prevalence indicate not only the existing shortcomings of education and conditions for the inclusion of the youth in the life of society, but in large measure serve as prognostic characteristics of crime in general.