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ABSTRACT
This article assesses the relationships between the individual and family characteristics of minors and juvenile delinquency in Romania. This cross-sectional study involved Romanian delinquent minors, 285 of whom were incarcerated in prisons in Romania and 280 subject to educational measures in re-education services in Romania. The multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that delinquency in incarcerated minors is associated with age, the offence committed, drug use, school dropout rates, recidivism, family alcoholism, the relationship with the biological parents, and the number of biological siblings. The study provides baseline data to identify at-risk minors in order to develop prevention programmes. We have adopted a public health approach to analysing delinquency and targets risk factors.
ABSTRACT
Acest articol evaluează relaţiile dintre caracteristicile individuale si familiale ale minorilor şi delincvenţa juvenilă în România. Acest studiu transversal a implicat minori români delincvenţi, 285 încarceraţi în penitenciare din România şi 280 supuşi unor măsuri educative în servicii de reeducare din România. Analiza de regresie logistică multivariată a aratat ca delincvenţa juvenilă a minorilor încarceraţi este asociată cu varsta, infracţiunea comisă, uzul de droguri, abandonul şcolar, recidivismul, alcolismul familial, relaţia cu parinţii naturali si numărul de fraţi biologici. Studiul oferă bază de date pentru a identifica minorii la risc în vederea dezvoltării de programe de prevenire. Pentru analiza delincvenţei şi identificarea factorilor de risc, am adoptat o abordare de sănătate publică.
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Notes on contributors
Popa Ioana PhD and Romanian researcher in Public Health, is presently Research fellowship at University of Pavia, Italy, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Section of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology. In 2009 she graduated PhD School of Public Health and Education, University of Pavia, Italy. She coordinated the project ‘Cooperation between Italy and Romania for the children’s juridical protection’, whose objective was to improve the relations between Romania and Italy for the prevention of the minor’s criminality. She worked as demographer and scientific researcher in Institute of Hygiene and Public Health and Institute of Health Services Management, Bucharest, Romania.
Borrelli Paola PhD is currently an adjunct professor in Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine at the University of Pavia, Unit of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology. She earned her PhD in Public Health and Education from the University of Pavia in 2012. Her research interests focus on epidemiology of health services and on epidemiology of chronic-degenerative diseases.
Ruxandra Breda-Popa Romanian sociologist, graduated in Sociology at the Sorbonne University of Paris, France. Currently she is working as engineer at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) from Paris, France, in the research unit Longitudinal French Study since Childhood (ELFE). This unit follows 18,300 children born in metropolitan France in 2011 from birth to the age of 20 years. The aim is to acquire a better understanding of how environment, family circle and living conditions influence their development, health, socialization, and scholastic trajectories.
Cristina Montomoli PhD, Full Professor in Medical Statistics, Head of the Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health, Experimental and forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Italy. Director of the Specialization school in Medical Statistics and Biometry. She teaches Biostatistics and Epidemiology in several undergraduate and post-degree courses. Her research interests concern statistical models in epidemiology, observational, and experimental studies.