COUNTERACTION TO CRIMINALIZATION OF THE YOUTH: INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES
The article gives an overview of the international and law approaches to counteraction to criminalization of the youth. It emphasizes the main international tendencies, common reasons and conditions of the children and the youth criminalization. It describes the notion «youth» in the international and law documents, and first of all, the limits of the youth age. The article underlines the main international and law documents on the youth rights. According to this, the author draws a number of conclusions on social and criminal policy of the Russian Federation regarding children and the youth.