Summary
Not only increasing juvenile delinquency, but also violent crimes committed by juveniles become more and more relevant problem in Lithuania as in many other world countries. Further - more, downward trend in criminals’ age is betng noticed, because the persons younger than 18 years old break the criminal laws more and more often. This cause the discussions between lawyers, forensic medical practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, criminologists, so ci ol o gists, peda gogues and other specialists about destructiveness of children, i. e. inclination of person or phenomenon to do harm to himself, environment or other people, often causing especially harmful or even irreversible consequences to victims (for example, the life of a victim is taken, health is seriously injured etc.).
The object of this article - expression of children destructiveness by committing murders and grievous bodily injuries.
The aim of the work. To analyze the concepts of destructiveness, violence, human health impairment and others. To present the concepts of murder and grievous bodily injuries as the most dangerous crimes, made by juveniles, to disclose their definitions and to deliver conclusions in the end of the work after the summarization of research results.
The sources of the research. Legislation of the Republic of Lithuania, international and other legal acts, “Health Impairment Degree Determination Rules” issued on May 23, 2003, analyzed special medical, psychological, legal literature were reviewed with consideration of comparative aspect, also thorough summarization of selfmade research of criminal proceedings relative to the topic was referred.
Work methods. Linguistic, logical, systematic, analytical, descriptive statistics and comparative methods were used. Logical and systematic cognitive methods were used in order to evaluate the opinions of medical, psychological, psychiatric, law scientists on the aspects of the anaiyzed topic. Comparative method was used in reviewing the dynamics of very serious crime, committed during a specific period. Linguistic method was used in order to disclose the concepts used in the work.
Keywords: murder, health impairment, bodily injury, aggression, destructiveness.
