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Wartime and postwar trends in juvenile crime: the Croatian and the Serbian perspective

The main goal of the paper is to reveal how the broad social changes that have taken place in the Eastern Europe over the last three decades have influenced trends in juvenile crime in two countries: Croatia and Serbia. Using data from the national police services and country statistical yearbooks, authors compare changes in trends in reported juvenile crime in Croatia and in Serbia for the period between 2001 and 2011.. During the first half of the period observed, respective data in Croatia do not show steady and recognizable rise of juvenile crime, although the public perceptions is quite different. Over the entire 11 years of the observed period, juvenile crime in Croatia increased by 18, 6%.and in Serbia by 18, 8%. In Croatia, the juvenile crime against property (relates to two thirds of the total juvenile crime) increased by 26, 1% while in Serbia it decreased by 16, 2%.. But, there are some more significant changes in juvenile violent crime over the observed period: juvenile crime against life and limb quadrupled in Croatia and doubled in Serbia. In 2011, compared to 2001, juvenile crime against public order increased three times in Croatia and eight times in Serbia.

juvenile crime ; war ; post-war ; transition ; juvenile crime trends

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