STAGES AND LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT OF DELINQUENCY OF A PERSON

Introduction. The problem of children adolescents and youth delinquency in Ukraine remains tense, due to the difficult social and political situation in the country. Therefore, the issues of identifying, preventing and correcting the illegal behavior of underages remain relevant. This deviation from the social norm of people's behavior in the scientific literature is often called the term "delinquent behavior." The purpose of the article is to analyze the views of researchers on delinquency and describe the stages of its development from the earliest stages of life. Results. Analysis of the scientific literature has shown that some scientists replace the term "delinquent behavior of a person" with the term "delinquency", and also use the terms "delinquent" and "delictable personality" to emphasize the presence of particular personality characteristics. Therefore, to describe this characteristics, we will use the notion of "delinquency". We believe that this is a specific personality attribute of a young person. It is formed gradually under the influence of negative social and biological factors of the environment. It manifests itself in behavior that does not conform to the officially accepted norms (including criminal-legal ones as well). Originality. Relying on the thoughts of scientists, we identified three periods of delinquency of a person: latent, prodromal and period of vivid manifestation of delinquency. We believe that these periods progress in different ages depending upon a particular person. But if parents do not pay enough attention to their children at an early age, then the prodromal period of delinquency can manifest itself already at the younger school age. It is going to be different forms of behavioral disorders: poor performance, disobedience, hooliganism, etc. Depending on the aggravation of manifestations of deviations in behavior, we distinguish three stages of the prodromal period of delinquency: the first, the second and the third. Conclusion. Thus, delinquency today is a fairly common phenomenon among schoolchildren. It manifests itself in different behavioral disorders and leads to the formation of persistent criminal behavior of the individual. Therefore, it is important to determine the manifestations of delinquency of a child at an early stage and to conduct early prevention of this social disease.