Deviance in the Economic Behaviour at the Age of Adolescence

Abstract

The main cause of poverty is the extended economic crisis, among others due to theirrational closing down of hundreds of companies, plants and its emergenet consequence,namely unemployment. Although poverty cannot be considered a direct cause of juveniledelinquency, it strongly influences the way in which families educate their children and theuse of illegitimate methods as “solutions”. ". Poverty favours the phenomenon “children ofthe street”, and in turn this „supplies” the statistics of juvenile delinquency. Delinquency,thefts, prostitution and drugs economically add up to the desire of ignorant youngsters to“handle” and find “solutions” in the current society’s incipient state of anomie.