The failure of juvenile justice on the example of the Perm stabbing

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The long-term implementation of a pilot project in the Perm Territory on the creation of juvenile justice as a system of juvenile justice produced an effect opposite to the expected one.

The Perm tragedy shocked the whole country. On January 15, 2018, two armed teenagers somehow entered school # 127, broke into the primary school room and attacked the children and the teacher. Throughout the day, conflicting information was received, even now it is not completely clear what exactly happened. However, the result is known - the teacher and 11 children were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity, the attackers themselves were also hospitalized.

We still have to figure out what happened there, but what I personally expect in this situation is that juvenile lobbyists now certainly use this tragic incident as another justification for the introduction of juvenile technologies in Russia.

This is what infuriates most of all, since what happened is just an indicator that the Perm juvenile experiment, which has been going on since 2005 (twelve years!), Has failed miserably

The fact is that in the West juvenile justice originally emerged as juvenile justice, where it was once singled out as a separate area of law (in Russia there was and exists another system that also takes into account such a factor as the age of the offender). And already towards the end of the 20th century, a terrible mutation took place in the Western legal system - at some point, juvenile justice was removed from the framework of purely criminal law and extended to family legal relations. The so-called juvenile system was formed, consisting of a juvenile justice system and a system of intervention in family affairs (which is at the same time a tool for the destruction of this institution).

Street kids playing cards

The reason for the appearance of this mutation was the idea that the family makes the child a criminal. Those who voiced it, left out of the brackets society, regressive phenomena in it, the media, the school, as well as various significant factors of public life. That is, in fact, the parents were named as the main culprits in the transformation of the child into an offender. At the same time, the priority of "the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the child" was proclaimed, the observance of which was to be observed by special structures created by the state, but at the same time practically not subordinate to it. These structures to this day are engaged in the fact that in the event of violations of the "rights of children" they eliminate the "threat" in the form of parents. The existence of such a system in the state implies the introduction of a ban on punishment, as a result - on education, since punishment is an integral part of it. The paradox also lies in the fact that Western states have forbidden to punish a child not only to parents, but also to themselves.

What's the bottom line? As a result, in the West, firstly, the institution of the family was actually destroyed, and secondly, paradoxically, all conditions were created for children to become offenders. For example, inveterate repeat offenders began to use minors as a tool for committing crimes, because a child will not get anything for such an offense, he has special rights and the ability to avoid punishment thanks to the existence of juvenile courts.

I am deliberately oversimplifying it a little, but the existing Western juvenile system evolved this way. Surely the reader, after reading these lines, will have a kind of déjà vu, which is not surprising, because this is exactly what is happening in Russia now.

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Baby hands

In 2005, it was announced that the Perm Territory is a pilot region for the creation of a juvenile justice system. About eight years have passed since the start of the project. In February 2013, the founding congress of the All-Russian organization for the protection of the family "Parent All-Russian Resistance" (RVS) was held. The Perm branch of the RVS almost immediately after that entered into a public polemic with the regional authorities. The authorities argued that the province introduced and is introducing only part of the western juvenile justice system in the form of juvenile justice. They denied that a Western-style family intervention system was also being created in the region.

At that time, it was already absolutely clear to us that such statements are an outright lie, since the introduction of one part of the juvenile system is impossible without the introduction of another, because both are based on the principle of the priority of “children's rights”. If they start to follow it, then you have to implement the project in full.

What the creation of this system led to, can be seen from the statement of the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child under the President of the Russian Federation Anna Kuznetsova, which she posted on the page on the social network.

“When the father stopped dealing with his son on his own and turned to the police, the representatives of the Commission on Minors' Affairs and the Protection of Rights simply decided to hold the father accountable by imposing a fine. The lack of professionalism of specialists and the lack of communication and continuity in the work of departments are evident, Kuznetsova wrote.

Illustration: Kremlin.ru

Children's Ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova

And within the framework of this system, it cannot be otherwise! The juvenile-oriented officials will always be guilty of the parents who “violate the rights of children”. Therefore, KDNiZP works exactly like this - unprofessionally and not according to Russian laws. They are actually given judicial functions, but at the meetings of the commissions there is not even a semblance of a trial, they easily pass resolutions on bringing parents to justice under Art. 5.35 ("Parents' improper performance of their duties"), forming a false image of the family. I know what I am talking about, since I have attended many of these meetings and even delivered a corresponding report in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

The author of IA REGNUM Alexey Bannikov, commenting on the Perm tragedy, spoke quite well about the part of the juvenile system that is responsible for interfering in family affairs. He also considered other reasons for what happened, including the removal of the function of education from the school. And I would like to dwell on another part of the juvenile system - juvenile justice and the results of its implementation in the Perm Territory.

Let me remind you that one of the results of the introduction of juvenile technologies is the introduction of a ban on education. Since one of the main "promoters" of their implementation in the Perm Territory was and is Pavel Mikov, until November 2017, who held the post of the regional ombudsman for the rights of the child (since November 2017, he was Svetlana Denisova, and Mikov took the post of Ombudsman), one cannot but recall the most striking case that shows the essence of juvenile ideology.

In the winter of 2013-2014, an incident thundered all over the country in the Peshnigort orphanage, the underage pupils of this institution were raped by a group of teenagers from the same orphanage. When the situation went public, Pavel Mikov commented on it as follows - he said that everything "happened because of the mutual sympathy and love that arose," and at the same time added that one of the girls, before she got to the orphanage, " led a normal, childish way of life. " He stated that her parents "handed over the child to neighbors for sexual services for a bottle of vodka." In other words, Mikov tried to make the victims of the crime guilty. At the same time, he, of course, reminded that juvenile delinquents also have rights and he intends to defend them.

Child abuse

All this was not at all surprising, since Pavel Mikov in public speeches repeatedly made it clear that he is an ardent supporter of juvenile justice as a system of juvenile justice. And this system also manifests itself in this way - the absence of punishment for juvenile offenders.

Despite Mikov's similar behavior and the mass picket that social activists held on election day at the walls of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory, in February 2014, the deputies decided to re-elect him to this post. They had enough of Mikov's pitiful excuses that criminals also have rights. The fact that Mikov was caught in a lie did not touch them in the least. This is to the question of how much the Perm authorities hold on to the juvenile experiment and how ready they are to defend its ardent supporters.

Then the situation was taken under the personal control of the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, nine examinations were carried out, more than 70 witnesses were interviewed, nine volumes of materials of the criminal case were formed. As a result, the court found five teenagers guilty, they were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of four to seven years. The director of the institution was "lucky" - she fell under the amnesty.

Now let's move on to the fun part. As I showed above, it would seem that all this juvenile "leapfrog" should lead to a decrease in the rates of juvenile delinquency. After all, it was for this that everything was started ?! But what about this in the Perm Territory? And it is very interesting, because in November 2015, the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Perm Territory, Viktor Koshelev, said that the region was among the leaders of child crime.

Back in 2013, when I was just starting my "anti-juvenile path," I came across an article that was posted in LiveJournal and on the Aftershock resource by the user ZUCKtm. The author wrote his article back in October 2012. He tried to evaluate the effectiveness of the introduced juvenile system based on the analysis of quantitative indicators of juvenile delinquency in six regions of Russia; the researcher used mathematical statistics as a tool.

Those wishing to evaluate the article can follow the link, but I will give only the author's conclusion regarding the Perm Territory. At that time, the experiment in this region was the longest - five years, from 2005 to 2009.

“The result is rather negative: a slight tendency towards an increase in crime during all the years of the experiment,” the expert concludes.

ZUCKtm had data available until 2009, eight years have passed since then. What has changed? The search for an answer led me to the portal of legal statistics of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. There you can see how many “minors who have committed crimes have been identified”. The resource provides data since 2010. Thus, we now have an almost complete picture for 12 years. Practically - because statistics for December 2017 are not yet available, but this does not make much of the weather. It would seem that since 2009 in the Perm Territory there has been a tendency towards a decrease in the number of identified children who have committed crimes. However, if we look at the same graph for Russia, we will see that this tendency is manifested in the whole country, which means that it is impossible to say that the region is showing success.

But what is of greater interest is the graph titled "Place in the rating by indicator". The Perm Territory demonstrates the following picture.

Place in the rating by indicator

As you can see, in 2010 the region was in seventh place. It was ranked fifth four times (there was a slight fluctuation in 2014). In 2016, he took third (!) Place. As of November 2017, he was already in fourth place. So I would not be surprised if by the end of 2017 it will be in third or even second place (for example, the Moscow region is in 13th place).

The downward trend is evident, not to mention the fact that the third place among 85 regions of Russia is another result

At the IV Perm Regional Family Forum, which took place in December 2017, together with other participants, a representative of the Perm Regional Court made a presentation, who spoke about the success of the implementation of the model of juvenile justice in the region. This event was generally distinguished by an incredible degree of ostentatious officialdom, considering that in the main conference hall of the so-called "family forum" there were practically only representatives of social services (it is not for nothing that it is called the "juvenile forum"). But I was somehow especially touched by the speech of the representative of the court, in which, like the other speakers, bravura notes sounded. I sat and thought - well, how can you talk about some kind of success with such indicators?

Let's summarize.

The longest experiment on the implementation of the model of juvenile justice is being carried out in the Perm Territory - it has been going on for 12 years already! Obviously, a lot of money is being allocated for this. At the same time, the region ranks third in terms of child crime in the list of 85 regions. And all these 12 years, representatives of the regional authorities have not tired of talking about how good this thing is - juvenile justice, how well they work and how stupid social activists do not understand anything about what is happening - you just need to continue further, and allocate more funds.

The worst thing for me in all this is that even such tragedies as the death of a child in the Dobriansky district or the stabbing in school 127 do not force those responsible to draw the necessary conclusions from what is happening.