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Juvenile Delinquency in the USSR: Social Structural Explanations

NCJ Number
116188
Journal
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1988) Pages: 73-80
Author(s)
J O Finckenauer
Date Published
1988
Length
8 pages
Annotation
This paper looks at juvenile delinquency in the Soviet Union in the context of certain social structural aberrations and socioeconomic inequities in the society.
Abstract
It is just these aberrations and inequities which have been consistently ignored or denied by the Soviet authorities. As part of the research for the paper, the author spent two months in the USSR in the summer of 1986 conducting interviews with Soviet criminologists and officials and visiting juvenile justice agencies. (Author abstract)