One of the areas in crime prevention activities are minors. Prevention of juvenile crime in Ukraine in addition to social and psychological services, social services staff, adolescent services, law enforcement is provided by teachers.
Thus, March 18, 2015 Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Process Law Institute Inna Roshchina and assistant Alisa Kochneva along with the students Victoria Merenkova and Irina Chushenko in secondary school №54 in city Kyiv had legal lecture on "Prevention of juvenile delinquency". During the classes speakers emphasized that offenses committed by juveniles - dangerous social phenomenon, which negatively affects the individual, society severely affected due to the loss of human resources (only a third of the condemned returned to normal social life) play a significant role in the formation of recidivism. The main characteristic of juvenile crime is that they committed wide antisocial orientation, they are distinguished by a deep disrespect for society, selfishness, cruelty, cynicism and so on. Thematic activities among young people is important, because one of the areas of crime prevention among minors is legal education.