The Evolution in Delinquency Among Minors

Abstract

Police and judicial statistics do not establish a record of actual delinquency among minors but create a barometer of its treatment by institutions. Though the idea of a change and increase in juvenile delinquency corresponds to common prejudice and nourishes a feeling of insecurity among the general population, it is not however well-founded statistically. The author analyses how evolutions in delinquency among minors illustrate the processes of criminalisation, referral and judicial proceedings which transformed French society’s relationship to its youth during the 1990s, along with the ghettoising of working-class districts.

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