Abstrakt: | 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 |