Child and adolescent crime in Primorsky krai during the Great Patriotic War

The paper analyzes child and adolescent crime during the Great Patriotic War on the basis of state archival materials of Primorsky Krai. The author in course of study found that the offenses were expressed in petty theft, hooliganism and robbery. Almost half of all crimes were related to violation of labor laws. It was revealed that local authorities tried to carry out preventive measures to prevent crime by children and adolescents, which amounted to raids on places of accumulation of homeless children, their education in schools of factory tutoring with subsequent employment and material assistance them in the workplace. The author concludes that the main causes of offenses by children and adolescents were the difficult social and economic living conditions in which they found themselves, the lack of control by adults, educational and cultural institutions.