Actualisation and Access to the Juvenile Crime Research Problem in the Republic of Macedonia

Juvenile crime, with its phenomenological characteristics, is one of the most important indicators of the actual situation of the society. The characterisation of this type of crimality as a social phenomenon, as well as its scope, structure, dynamics and etiology, are determined by consulting and researching data from official institutions. These are the basic parameters to build scientific systematised and verified information about the phenomenon. The paper explains the dilemma associated with the (in)accuracy of the police statistics of the detection and the clarification of the juvenile crime as the indicator of determining the efficacy of the police, on the one hand, and its comparison with prosecutorial and judicial statistics, on the other. The research of this very segment of juvenile crime is considered a cloudy field of science, as if stepping into the zone of terra incognita. The findings are but an important factor for the actualisation of the problem and the approach to it.