In my master’s thesis, titled Discussion of the juvenile offenders of the violent criminal offences, I researched the field of violent juvenile crime. In the first part, I explained some basic conceptions and the history of the juvenile judiciary, which is important in order to understand the today’s system of treating juveniles. I also presented the protective model and the equity model of treating juveniles and the model of treatment, as we have it in Slovenia. In the central part, I tried mostly to focus on treating juveniles who committed a violent criminal offence and to point out the characteristics of their treatment. I pointed out some foreign and domestic sources of law and some foreign legal practices in connection with treating the juvenile offenders of violent criminal offences. In the process, I tried to point out also some good and poor practices. I explained which factors influence the minors to commit violent criminal offences. With regards to the treatment of minors in Slovenia, and with regards to sanctions, I focused on institutional corrective measure of placement to correctional facility and on the penalty of juvenile detention, for I conclude that violent criminal offences, which are believed to be the worst criminal offences, are most often sanctioned by the described sanctions. By means of statistical data, I showed the shares of juveniles in the correctional facility and in juvenile detention. Before that, I showed the share of violent juvenile crime. At the end, I presented my ascertainments and confirmed or rejected the set hypotheses.
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