Peculiarities of criminological characteristic of juvenile crime in rural areas

The study of the territorial differences in juvenile crime in rural and urban areas is oneof the constituents of a differentiated approach to its investigation which allows us not only to take into account the effect of the particularenvironment on the formation of personal qualities and to detail the negative influences of that environment and their interrelations,but also to carry out juvenile crime prevention measures on a case-by-case basis by considering the particularities of the local conditions.A criminological analysis of the juvenile crime in Altai Region allows us to say that the regional criminal situation among juvenilesis characterized by outrunning growth of juvenile crime in the rural area as compared to the crimes committed by juveniles intowns. The number of crimes committed by rural juveniles is higher than those in towns. The crime rate among rural juveniles is higherin the number of crimes and persons involved than among the young people in the urban area of the region, which certainly shows ahigher juvenile criminal activity in the rural area than in the urban one. A comparative analysis of juvenile crime in the rural and urbanareas of Altai Region allowed us to reveal the following structural peculiarities of juvenile delinquency in the rural area: the rate ofhomicides and attempted ones in the total amount of rural juvenile crimes is 3 times higher than that in towns, the rate of forceful rapesand attempted ones is 2 times higher in the rural area than in the urban one; the rate of crimes related to intended grave bodily injuries isapproximately the same in both areas, the rate of crimes related to intended bodily injuries of medium gravity is 1.6 times higher in therural area than in towns; the rate of thefts in the rural area is 1.8 times higher than in the urban one but the rate of plundering is 4.6 timeslower, the rate of robberies is approximately twice lower in the rural area than in towns and the rate of crimes related to misappropriationof an automobile or other transport vehicle with no intent to steal is approximately 1.4 times lower in the rural area than in the urbanone. Such revealed particularity is determined by the rural specific conditions that are closely connected with the numerous problems inbringing-up, living, leisure time and ways of communication. The analysis of the dynamics of juvenile crime in Altai Region over theperiod 2003-2009 shows, firstly, the growth of juvenile criminal level in the rural area and, secondly, the fact that the dynamics of thelatter is outrunning than that in the urban area and, moreover, it outruns the dynamics of the growth of juvenile criminal level within theregion in whole. The dynamics of the rate concerning specific crimes in the juvenile crime structure shows that, over the period mentionedabove, the growth of approximately every kind of crimes committed by juveniles in the rural area can be seen. Unfavourabletrends in rural juvenile crime in Altai Region are determined by worrying processes of the growth of criminal activities among schoolchildrenand students of professional schools in the total number of juveniles who committed crimes in the rural area. The rate of increasein the number of juveniles, who has committed crimes before, in the total number of juveniles who committed crimes in the ruralarea, is 11 times higher than the similar index related to the urban one. It is evident that, in whole, the trend in changing the correlationof the rates of juvenile crime in the urban and rural areas of Altai Region is in favour of villages. It is rural crime that determines, nowadays,the face of juvenile crime in the region.

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