Involving a minor in antisocial activities is a criminal offense. Such atrocities hinder the formation of a teenager’s personality, making him antisocial, preventing him from developing physically and spiritually. It is noteworthy that modern youth themselves strive to join real adult life by trying alcohol, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. If older comrades do not prevent such dangerous hobbies of the younger generation or actively encourage such actions, they become criminals and, therefore, are subject to criminal punishment.
Let's look at the key aspects of such atrocities.
Basic provisions
According to the norms of current legislation, the term “involvement” refers to situations where adults intentionally create conditions when antisocial acts are committed by minors or the preconditions for such activities are created.
For example, parents treat their child to beer, mistakenly believing that a small dose of weak alcohol will not cause harm. However, involving minors in drinking alcohol is not the only antisocial act. Adults can force a child to beg, entice him into prostitution, or get him hooked on illegal drugs.
All of the listed offenses fall under Article 151 of the Criminal Code, which outlines penalties for involving persons under the age of majority in anti-social activities.
Important! The article provides an exhaustive list of antisocial acts, therefore, involving a teenager in gambling or involving him in committing other administrative violations does not imply liability under Article 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Download for viewing and printing:
Article 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Involving a minor in committing antisocial actions”
Prevention of alcoholism among minors
A person’s personality begins to form at an early age. That is why the prevention of alcoholism among minors should begin as early as possible. It is important to pay attention to the formation of a healthy and highly moral personality. From early childhood, show a person the right guidelines in life.
At the moment, the prevention of alcoholism among minors is extremely ineffective. Very little attention is paid to prevention programs. The media are almost not involved in preventive and educational work. Public and government programs that are aimed at combating alcoholism, as well as preventing alcoholism, are working poorly.
In order for the prevention of alcoholism among minors to have its effect, it must be carried out at various levels.
Prevention of alcoholism among minors at the family level
The family must create conditions for leading a healthy lifestyle. Parents have a responsibility to be an example for their children. In this regard, parents who do not drink alcohol are excellent examples for them. Raising children aimed at developing a negative opinion about alcohol should have an important place.
Prevention of alcoholism among minors at the school level
Minors spend a significant amount of time in school. This is where opinions about the people around you are formed: peers, adults. At school it is necessary to create conditions that encourage sports and physical exercise. Teachers must have the necessary qualities and be an example for minors. Preventive measures should be taken to indicate the harmful effects of alcohol.
Prevention of alcoholism among minors by the state
The state must apply various preventive measures that contribute to the development among citizens of a lifestyle in which alcohol consumption would be excluded altogether or significantly limited. To do this you need to use:
- Control over the quality of alcoholic products produced in the state;
- Prohibition and restriction of alcohol consumption by minors;
- Prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages to persons under 18 years of age;
- Provide criminal liability for involving minors in drinking alcohol, as well as for driving them to alcohol intoxication;
- Creating conditions under which alcohol consumption in the production team would be impossible;
- Criminal and administrative punishment of persons appearing drunk in public places;
- Encouraging and stimulating advertising about the dangers of alcohol.
Prohibition of employing minors in work related to the production, trade, and storage of alcoholic beverages.
Tips for parents on preventing alcoholism.
Recently, there has been an increase in the incidence of alcoholism among adolescents; the age of patients with alcoholism is decreasing every year.
Causes of teenage alcoholism
One of the main causes of teenage alcoholism is family relationships. A teenager may start drinking alcohol if there are negative interpersonal relationships in the family, violence, misunderstanding, or excessive parental care. Teenagers often try alcohol in families where it is customary to relax with alcohol on weekends when “guests arrive.”
For teenagers, relationships with friends are very important. Therefore, they can drink alcohol: • to keep up with their drinking friends, to be more sociable, to talk a lot, and not to be afraid of third-party assessment of their judgments; • to feel sexually attractive and to please the opposite sex; • be bolder and more confident; • to escape from complex reality.
Consequences of alcohol use among teenagers
Regular alcohol use by teenagers is much more serious and dangerous than alcoholism in adulthood. Because at this time the growth and development of all vital organ systems and human functions occurs. Alcohol affects all human organ systems: • disruptions in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract occur; • the liver is damaged, hepatitis and cirrhosis develop; • the functioning of the pancreas is disrupted; • activity of the cardiovascular system; • inflammatory kidney diseases develop. • various inflammatory diseases appear in the lungs, bronchi, larynx, nasopharynx; • the body's immune defense decreases.
The teenager develops emotional disturbances: coarseness, explosiveness, carelessness, suggestibility. There is no control over one's behavior. Drinking alcoholic beverages on weekends, while relaxing with friends, is considered natural. Drinking becomes regular. As a result of this, drinking alcohol quietly becomes almost the main meaning of life.
Tips for parents:
How to recognize that a teenager has started drinking alcohol
It is necessary to pay attention to a sharp change in the child’s behavior. • If such traits as rudeness, aggression, irritability appear. • The child has become withdrawn and secretive. • Money and things disappear from the house. • The child's academic performance has declined sharply. • Comes home late smelling of alcohol.
What to do if a teenager comes home drunk
You need to talk to the teenager. But it is better to postpone the conversation until the morning; in a state of alcoholic intoxication, a teenager will not listen to any arguments.
In a conversation with a teenager, it is necessary to find out the reasons why he decided to try alcohol and find a way to achieve the same goals, but without alcohol. Teach a teenager to defend his opinion and say “No.” This will help the teenager gain authority among his peers, without drinking.
If a child is seriously interested in alcohol, it is necessary to seek help from a doctor or psychologist; specialists will give appropriate recommendations and, if necessary, provide anonymous treatment for alcoholism.
Adolescents from wealthy families and alcoholism
Many people think that childhood alcoholism is common only in dysfunctional families, where parents often suffer from alcohol addiction themselves. Children from prosperous families often become alcoholics, where parents do not suffer from alcoholism and fully provide for their children financially.
In such families, parents are often busy and do not always monitor the development of their child.
Often parents do not know who their child communicates with, what he does in his free time, how, where and with whom he spends his time. Parents often believe that the main thing in raising a child is to provide him with healthy food, good clothes and pocket money.
When a teenager begins to behave strangely, often defiantly and impudently, they justify his behavior by adolescence or something else, and solve all difficulties and disputes with gifts and pocket money, without even suspecting that this money continues to sponsor children's alcoholism.
How to protect children and teenagers from alcoholism
A teenager should feel comfortable in his family and feel that he is understood. Perceive your parents as the smartest mentors in life matters. • Show respect for your teen. Don't manipulate your experience and age. Don't show your superiority. • Find a common hobby. It will allow you to spend your free time together with great pleasure. • Help your teenager become a person, a worthy adult. • Always be authoritative, and for this, always behave with dignity in all situations.
Prevention of alcoholism at school
What is alcoholism prevention? This is a system of measures aimed at strengthening factors of protection among the population from alcoholism. As you know, certain life situations can promote or, conversely, prevent the onset of alcohol consumption. Those circumstances that contribute to alcohol consumption are called risk factors, and those that contribute to a decrease are called protective factors. Throughout life, a person is influenced by both these and other factors, and the prevention of alcoholism is aimed at strengthening protective factors. The latter include: well-being in the family, physical and mental health, regular medical supervision, resistance to stress, a good level of income, compliance with social norms and others.
In Russia, the prevention of alcoholism remains one of the most pressing problems. The increase in alcoholism among the population shows that work in this direction is necessary. And, of course, a special place here is occupied by the prevention of alcoholism among the younger generation, among children and adolescents.
Primary prevention of alcoholism.
Experts divide the prevention of alcoholism into three stages: primary, secondary and tertiary. We will be mainly interested in the primary prevention of alcoholism.
Goals. This stage aims to prevent the initiation of alcohol use among those who have not yet consumed alcohol. Therefore, it is aimed primarily at children, adolescents and young people. The main goal of this stage is to form a negative attitude towards alcohol abuse and help reduce the number of people who may develop alcoholism. Moreover, in general, we can say that this stage of prevention involves not so much the prevention of alcoholism, but the preservation and strengthening of human health, the formation of a healthy lifestyle among the population.
Tasks. Primary prevention of alcoholism in school is characterized by three main tasks. Firstly, carrying out extensive educational work among students. Secondly, sanitary and hygienic anti-alcohol education. And lastly, the formation of teetotal attitudes.
Principles. The basis for the prevention of alcoholism in school are the following principles:
1. Anti-alcohol education should be presented in the form of an integral system of anti-alcohol education, carried out throughout all years of education and aimed at developing in the minds of children and adolescents an intolerant attitude towards any manifestations of drunkenness and alcoholism;
2. The anti-alcohol education program should provide for a gradual, taking into account the age and psychological characteristics of students, disclosure of the negative effects of alcohol on human health and the life of society as a whole;
3. Anti-alcohol work in schools should be carried out primarily by teachers, with individual specialists invited to read;
4. Anti-alcohol education should extend to parents and students.
Varieties
Let's look at exactly what acts are considered antisocial and give a brief definition of each point.
Begging
This assumes situations where a minor begs strangers for money, food, things and other items of financial value.
Vagrancy
Situations when a teenager leads a nomadic lifestyle, constantly moving within a certain territory or area, or wandering between populated areas.
If this happens over a long period of time, the teenager may develop persistent problems with adaptation in society. It is noteworthy that whether the little tramp has a permanent place of residence or the lack thereof does not play a significant role.
Drinking alcohol-containing products
This refers to the repeated abuse of alcoholic beverages by adolescents, which can provoke persistent alcohol dependence.
For the crime under Article 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, it does not matter at what time minors are involved in systematic drunkenness: educational or free. In addition, the fact of consumption itself is not taken into account: an adult only needs to repeatedly offer alcohol to a child, and even if the latter refuses, the offender will end up in the dock.
Use of intoxicants
This refers to mind-stupefying substances that cause a state close to alcoholic intoxication. This may include some medicines, household chemicals, a mixture of alcohol with intoxicating components, for example, diphenhydramine, ether, barbiturates. Important! If the involvement of minors in vagrancy is provoked by a difficult life situation or lack of means of subsistence, the situation does not constitute a criminal offense, provided that the involvement occurs at the request of the parents.
Corpus delicti
Before understanding the composition, you should understand that punishment for involving a child in drinking alcohol is provided for both by the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. Criminal law applies to those with whom the teenager repeatedly drank alcoholic beverages. Soldering, which is referred to in Article 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, is the systematic involvement of a child in antisocial actions. The full name of the article in question is “Involving a minor in committing antisocial actions.”
- drinking alcohol;
- drug use;
- vagrancy;
- begging.
The corpus delicti (drinking of minors, article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) reveals the fact that an adult, knowing about the illegality of his actions, involves a minor in drinking alcohol.
The object of the crime of drugging minors is a person who has not reached the age of majority - a young child or teenager under 18 years of age. Here, the object of the criminal attack is the factors of the full physical, psychological and social development of the minor. After all, when an adult drinks alcohol with a child, the perception of normal society, rules of conduct, and morality is disrupted, which can result in the teenager becoming involved in criminal activity.
The victim in this category of cases is the child and his legal representatives, except in situations where parents, guardians or trustees are not accused in the case.
The objective side of this crime is the involvement of a child in antisocial actions. It will be enough that the teenager drinks alcohol in the presence of an adult who allows such an event to occur without taking steps to stop the antisocial actions. Teenagers do not have full legal capacity, which means they cannot assess the danger of their actions. That is why the legislator considered that the task of any adult is to stop children from drinking alcoholic beverages.
- The accused person repeatedly, that is, systematically attracted the teenager to drink alcoholic beverages. Only in such a situation can we talk about soldering.
- The offender must have knowledge and awareness that the victim is under 18 years of age.
- There must be a primary goal - to induce or attract a teenager to repeatedly drink alcohol.
Legal commentary states that this article also provides for liability for other antisocial actions in which the child was involved, therefore the objective side also includes involvement in the use of intoxicating, narcotic and psychotropic substances and vagrancy and begging.
Each of the listed activities has a detrimental effect on the formation of a minor’s personality, his physical health and mental development.
The methods by which involvement is carried out do not play a significant role in qualifying the crime. Only the use of physical violence or threats is highlighted - they are considered aggravating circumstances under which punishment is imposed under Part 3 of Art. 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The subject of this act can only be a person who has reached the age of majority.
- parents;
- trustees;
- guardians;
- teacher and educator.
On the part of special subjects, the commission of a criminal act against young children is punished especially severely.
The subjective side of the crime lies exclusively in direct intent. If the accused did not know that his drinking companion was not an adult, and it is impossible to visually determine his too young age, the lawyer can easily prove the absence of the subjective side - direct intent.
The elements of this crime are formal, which means that the dangerous act will be considered completed when the teenager gave his consent to drink alcohol. The subsequent fact of drinking alcohol or its absence will not play a decisive role.
What constitutes a crime
Such offenses are characterized by a formal composition, and the crime is considered committed from the moment of an attempt to involve a minor in antisocial acts falling under the provisions of the article in question of the Criminal Code.
Objective side
Involves the involvement of adolescents in antisocial activities.
An object
The personality of the victim, his health and moral formation.
Subjective side
Direct intent aimed at committing illegal actions.
Subject
Any citizen over 18 years of age.
Responsibility measures
According to the provisions of Article 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, those guilty of involving minors in antisocial activities may face the following types of punishment:
- crime without aggravating features: compulsory labor for up to 480 hours, correctional labor for 12-24 months, arrest for up to six months or imprisonment for up to 4 years;
- committed by a teacher, parents or other persons on whom the victim is socially dependent: arrest for up to six months, imprisonment for up to 5 years, restriction of freedom of movement for 2-4 years, ban on teaching for 3 years;
- committed with the use of violence or the threat of its use: up to 6 years in prison.
