Empowering Partnership as Resocialization Form of Juveniles Subject to Delinquency: Findings of Empirical Research

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency is part of general delinquency, one of the reasons of adult criminality. The holistic analysis of the reasons and characteristics of this social  and legal phenomenon creates premises for its understanding and allows creating new more effective preventive programmes. One of them is educational activity taking place in the partnership between a juvenile (juveniles) subject to delinquency and an educator (teacher); it is considered to be one of the resocialization elements, which contains empowerment potential. The article aims to answer the following questions: can empowering partnership be treated as resocialization form of juveniles subject to commit a crime? What specific features characterize empowering partnership as resocialization form of juveniles subject to commit a crime? The aim of the research is to identify specific features of empowering partnership as resocialization form of juveniles subject to commit a crime.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ss.75.1.1588