Konsumpcja a przestępczość nieletnich

Juvenile delinquency is a serious social problem. For a long time experts in different areas (law, criminology, sociology, psychology, medicine) have been trying to find solutions that would reduce juveniles’ involvement in criminal activity and various social pathologies which accompany crime. Unfortunately, they have been rarely successful. This publication is a criminological and victim logical discussion of juvenile delinquency in the context of satisfying needs, both material and non-material ones. A situation where a person’s needs have not been satisfied as desired poses a considerable threat to the individual. Human organism may develop various psychosomatic health disorders which lead to very serious diseases or even death. Being unable to satisfy their needs, particularly material ones, in a legal way, juveniles turn to crime. Research shows that juveniles’ efforts to fulfill their needs may result in their victimization by both young and adult offenders.