Juvenile crime and the spread of the spatial in Iraq (Education - Unemployment - Family ـ event)

Abstract

      The research aims to reveal the reality of juvenile crime and the statement of its size in Iraq, relying on equal lengths rapping, descriptive and analytical and quantitative method forms were used to indicate the extent of distribution variance.

      The research was found that the crime of terrorism is the most crime committed by juveniles.

      The number of criminals from terrorists was (681) criminals, followed by the crime of theft with (601) criminals, while the drug crime was the minimal one with (146) criminals

      The age group (12-14) topped the crimes with a total of (1453) criminals with a percentage of (64.9%), then the age group (17 - 15 years) with a total of (486) criminals with a rate of (21.7%), while the age group (9-11) ranked at the last with a total of ( 300) criminals with a rate of (13.4%).

     The relationship between the educational level of juvenile and crime rates was inverse, where the number of illiterate criminals (1028) in front of (54) criminals was have got education preparative.

      In addition, the juvenile crime in environmental urban was higher than in rural, where the number in urban search area (1553) criminals, compared to (686) criminals in its suburbs. Moreover, the number of crimes committed by males was higher than females, the number of male offenders (2130) criminals compared to (109) of the female criminals.