Uwarunkowania i tendencje do brutalizacji zachowań dzieci i młodzeży (w okresie transformacji ustrojowej w Polsce)

Abstract

This study resulting from a threat to the feeling of safety subjectively felt by the citizens, constitutes an attempt to identify key trends of the phenomenon of aggressive behaviour of children and teenagers during a system transformation in Poland after the year 1989. They include among others: dynamics of an increase in brutal behaviours of the minors, decrease in the age of crime initiation, committing crimes with a special cruelty, increase in brutal behaviours towards adults, including teachers, exclusion of the adults partnership and influence on the children s and teenagers attitude, increase in aggression and violent tendencies among girls, popularization of the phenomenon of teenage and criminal prostitution, paying by the minors, the weakest social group, in a specific way the costs of necessary system transformations. The author of this publication (a former form master, pedagogue and a director of rehabilitation unit), on the basis of gained experience supported by an analysis of literature, presents motives of crimes committed by the minors, a new specification of modern criminality of the Polish teenagers, selected symptoms, forms and examples of reevaluation of the minors attitudes and behaviours. He draws attention to negative general-civilization and sociocultural sources of an increase in the brutalization of the minors behaviours as defectively adapted potential wards of corrective educational and reformatory-rehabilitation institutions