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Babanina D.V. Functional characteristics of the criminal subculture among minors. Journal of Social Policy, Population Preservation and Reproductivity. 2026; 5(2). Available at: https://spnjournal.ru/PDF/01SPN226.pdf (in Russian).

Functional characteristics of the criminal subculture among minors

Babanina Darya Vasilyevna
Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Stavropol, Russia
E-mail: darbabanina@yandex.ru
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=1169049

Abstract. The problems of studying the criminal subculture among minors are among the highest priorities. It is determined by the relevant legal and criminological parameters, which is not fully capable of revealing the patterns of its functionality. Traditionally, criminology and sociology consider the criminal subculture as one of the basic elements consolidating criminal groups of minors. It is its presence that determines the functional features of illegal behavior by minors entering criminal communities. Despite the fact that this problem is not new, most experts agree that this phenomenon does not have clear functional criteria, as a result, different specialists understand its content in different ways. The author of the proposed article has been researching the functional specifics of the juvenile criminal subculture for many years. Her formation of complex ideas about this took place in several stages — practical (direct work with difficult teenagers in the juvenile affairs unit) and scientific (conducting a special criminological study, which resulted in writing a PhD thesis). The amount of data obtained both during the period of law enforcement and research activities allowed not only to formulate the author’s concept of «criminal subculture», but also to provide an exhaustive classification of its main features-indicators. Based on the author’s position, this social phenomenon is considered from the point of view of its phenomenological position in the structure of knowledge about minors leading an illegal lifestyle. This is fully a reflection of its specific function in the realization by minors of their socially negative aspirations.

Keywords: criminal community; subculture of the criminal community; minors as a social group; subculture of minors; criminal subculture; destructive subculture; informal subculture; subcultural relations