A program approach to the prevention of juvenile delinquency

Statistical data on the problem of juvenile delinquency are presented, which show that in the city of Tambov in 2020, juvenile delinquency increased by more than 5 %. The problematic field of juvenile offenders is considered, which is quite extensive and covers the range of emotional-psychological, material, intellectual and other areas of problems of this category of the population. The key direction in the system of crime prevention is highlighted as a comprehensive development of a program for early prevention of juvenile delinquency, with the help of which the circumstances and conditions that give rise to illegal behavior of adolescents are identified and eliminated. The programs of social prevention of juvenile delinquency, implemented in educational institutions, are considered. The content of the activities of a specialist in the implementation of social prevention programs in a general educational institution is analyzed, which carries out it through the study of the psychological and age characteristics of adolescent offenders, organizes various types of socially useful activities, helps to implement legal protection and social support for a juvenile offender and his family, and directs actions teachers on the prevention of offenses among students. A model is designed for organizing programs for the social prevention of juvenile delinquency in a general educational institution, which includes the following blocks: target; conceptual; content-methodological; procedural; criterion-effective, allowing in the early stages to prevent the emergence of illegal behavior of minors.