Subjects of juvenile delinquency prevention: issues of legislative regulation

The article states that juvenile delinquency prevention is one of the focal points of state policy and one of the most relevant concerns in Russian society. A single legal framework must form the basis of the system of prevention. The problem is whether a juvenile delinquency prevention system existing since 1999 needs cardinal reconstruction or further development. The issue about juvenile justice in Russia is a disputable one. Nowadays, some juvenile technologies are used within the framework of current prevention system. However, regardless the chosen direction of reforming, the enforcement of effective juvenile delinquency prevention depends on the efficiency of its subjects' activity, Nowadays, the range of bodies and institutions of the system of juvenile neglect and delinquency prevention is determined in Article 4 of the Federal law №120-FZ of 24.06.1999 "On the fundamentals of the system of juvenile neglect and delinquency prevention". When reading this document we cannot but pay attention to a number of significant circumstances. The present article deals with some controversial points related to the regulation of the activity of separate subjects of prevention in the text of the Federal law of 24.06.1999 "On the fundamentals of the system of juvenile neglect and delinquency prevention". It has been noted that the above law does not contain any information about the activity of some subjects of prevention. Moreover, the author analyses three basic directions in legislative regulation of preventive activities. They include: 1) adoption of the Federal enactment to regulate the crime prevention activities; 2) development of regional legislation in the sphere of juvenile delinquency prevention and crime prevention on the whole; 3) correlation of legal enactments with the provisions of Federal law № 120-FZ of 24.06.1999. The article attempts to estimate the reasonableness of legislative regulation for the activity of subjects of juvenile delinquency prevention and define the most challenging issues which are to be solved both on the federal and regional level.

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