which do not show proper activity in counteracting the immoral, criminal orientation
of the treatment of their members, are more often found among mercenary criminals:
such in them were every fourth self and each fifth parent family [9].
Criminology considers family desocialization as a certain criminogenic process
occurring in a disadvantaged family, ultimately due to external social phenomena,
including various imperfections in the social environment, and having its consequence
of forming in an underage member of the family antisocial qualities that are in a certain
situation can cause them to commit a crime. “At the same time, the external influences
of the immediate environment – as noted I. I. Karpets – are more negative than the
positive processes taking place in society. Sometimes this environment wants to
prevent the underage person from realizing and realizing the significance of positive
processes and their place in them and in society as a whole” [10]
The scientific coverage of the problem of disadvantaged families involves the
disclosure of the crime-generating process of formation in the families of antisocial
properties of the personality of minors, the elucidation of the mechanism of social
determination of the emergence of such families, the definition of the differentiation of
the antisocial influence of the family, depending on the nature of the criminogenic
process taking place in it, establishing the ratio of desocializing and conflict family.
Moreover, family relations are considered in the light of their development, change,
the possible cessation of further existence, as well as the association of several family
microgroups that do not affect the minor [11].
Disadvantaged family –one of the essential factors in the formation of the identity
of a juvenile offender. However, this factor acquires a criminogenic value, as a rule,
only when interacting with other factors affecting the personality: other components of
the microenvironment, such as the company of friends, the informal environment at
work; direct influence of the microenvironment; personal preliminary behavior of a
minor, his background, when habits and stereotypes of behavior and perception were
formed [6].
Criminological research of disadvantaged families. Family relations of a
person are constantly developing. The change in the ratio between the various
components of family life can be both positive and negative. Throughout his life, the
individual is under the influence of various systems of family relations. Especially
great influence of the parent's family on the younger generation. Insufficient life
experience of a minor, the natural authority of parents often leads to the
“generalization” of the model of values and rules assimilated in the family, the
treatment of her as a typical teenager and most expedient for life [12].
Much research has detected sufficiently large group of factors of the family sphere
of the juvenile, which are associated with his criminal behavior. True, different authors
do not adhere to the same terminology, as well as unequal in them and a set of factors
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