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From 1945 onwards, the French Ministry of Justice set up observation centers for minors brought before juvenile courts. Several observation methods were devised, led by psychologists using classic tests (Binet-Simon, Rorschach, TAT, etc.) as well as newer protocols (free writing or drawing). A recurrent exercise in both boys’ and girls’ observation centers was the prompt to draw one’s life in the form of a comic strip in several panels. The youth did not understand that they were being tested. These life stories, condensed into a few panels, are powerful revelations of everyday life and accounts of the trajectories of young people grappling with post-war French society. Despite the fact that historians have been reluctant to handle these archives until now, we believe that their analysis opens up new avenues of research. While absolutely avoiding any psychologizing interpretation, we aim to show that these comics give a voice to teenagers who tell their stories in a different way.

Au royaume des cieux (The Sinners, Julien Duvivier, 1949) and La Cage aux filles (Cage of Girls, Maurice Cloche, 1950), two fiction features set in reform schools for young women, have a shared history. Based on the same real events, written and produced concurrently, they took diverging paths when undergoing government censorship. Duvivier's film, which lets the relationship between its story and the real world remain ambiguous, was left largely untouched; Maurice Cloche, on the other hand, agreed to work closely with the French Ministry of Justice and ended up directing an explicitly realist film that reproduces the authorities'' official discourse. Both films, however, present reformatories in a deceptive way that contradicts the journalism they were based on. Examining the parallel trajectories of both films as they were made, this article reexamines the role of negotiations and propaganda in the "consensual" nature of French cinema from the immediate post-war period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The improper criminal participation is a criminal law institution that was founded as an attempt to regulate situations where, several persons participate as co-authors, partners or instigators, in committing acts regarded as criminal by the criminal law, while not being held guilty or if held guilty then at a level of guiltiness that does not correspond with the severity of the deeds. Therefore, it was considered necessary to explicitly legislate the cases that are beyond the regular form of participation in crimes whereas, without this institution, the situations with improper participation, and that are usually at the same level of severity as those of the direct participation, would have remained without a legal coverage. From the statistical point of view, there are underaged persons involved in the majority of the cases in the courts of first instance, where such forms of multiple participation are in encountered. Therefore, in this study we have analyzed the improper participation in the cases of the underaged persons, from the perspective of the regulations’ evolution in the criminal law, as well as, that of the juvenile delinquency. The description of the cases that produce juvenile delinquency is realized mainly by analyzing the cases in the Court of the First Instance in Craiova, taking into account the collective circumstances that favor an underaged person’s inclination towards committing a crime, from the psychological and social point of view. The study highlights the evolution of the juvenile behavior in close relationship with the dynamics of the modern communication technologies. The comparative study carried out on the evaluation reports authored by Department of Evidence in the criminal cases, as well as on the social investigations carried out by the General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection, highlight several aspects of criminological nature. In any case, they remain a simple probation material used in the case, due to the fact that value judgements remain a competence of the prosecutor and of the judge, in accordance to their roles in the phases of a criminal trial.

Delinquency theories place personality traits among the factors favoring crime. The personality is outlined early on, when the child perceives and carefully observes their surrounding reality. Adolescence is a critical period of personality finalization, the capacity for analysis and synthesis is high, but unstable, so the environment in which the young man grows up strongly affects his development. The questions and worries during adolescence are defining for the subsequent crystallization of the personality, for shaping an ideal, for forming a system of values that will guide behavior. We can say that the personality of the juvenile delinquent represents the unfortunate conjugation of those factors that contribute to the development of his personality, which results in a person who encounters difficulties in adequately adapting to the requirements of society. Delinquency refers to complex phenomena, common in modern societies. This makes delinquency a highly studied phenomenon, precisely to find the best ways to prevent and combat various forms of delinquency. This article presents data from the research on personality development of delinquent adolescents, conducted on a sample of 210 adolescents.

Juvenile delinquency has always aroused some interest among researchers, as young people are a growing new generation, a generation in which many hope, and immoral and antisocial actions by young people suggest that parents, guardians, employees of educational institutions and other people who may be involved in the formation of a personality in one way or another pay little attention to the educational process. This article is dedicated to the problems of juvenile delinquency, the characteristics of criminal behavior being determined. In pursuit of this purpose and objectives, the author used the method of analyzing the subject of the article through the legislation of the Republic of Moldova, as well as examining the scientific opinions offered to the general public by publishing on web pages or in printed form various guides, articles, explanatory notes. A theoretical and legal analysis of the concepts of legal regulation of juvenile delinquency prevention in the implementation of the modern criminal policy of the Republic of Moldova is carried out in detail. The author highlights one of the factors of juvenile delinquency - family problems. Possible law enforcement issues are being considered, ways of resolving them are proposed in order to prevent crime. The objective factors for the fight against juvenile delinquency are indicated, - among them are the rapid increase in crime and delinquency among adolescents and the low efficiency of court decisions.

This paper aims to analyze bullying behavior from a legal perspective. Bullying paves the way for juvenile delinquency and psychiatric morbidity, with an increased frequency in Romanian schools and serious consequences in terms of student development. The main aspects illustrated refer to the definition of the concept, forms of manifestation, consequences, legislative provisions and prevention. The presentation of the criminal phenomenon from the forms of onset to their chronicity leads to new directions of prevention that can be traced even in the environment in which they break out: school.

Questo studio si focalizza sul fenomeno delle bande delinquenziali composte di adolescenti denominati “microbi” in Costa d’Avorio. Il suo obiettivo è quello di analizzare il ruolo della famiglia nella persistenza della delinquenza di questi adolescenti in conflitto con la legge. Il presente lavoro di ricerca, basato su un campione non probabilistico di 75 persone, si è svolto nel distretto di Abidjan e, in particolare, nel comune di Abobo. Si tratta di uno studio qualitativo basato sull’ipotesi che le famiglie dei giovani denominati “microbi” abbiano una grossa responsabilità nella persistenza del comportamento delinquenziale dei propri figli. Per raggiungere gli obiettivi, si sono utilizzati strumenti e tecniche di raccolta dati quali l’osservazione non partecipante, l’intervista semi-strutturata e la ricerca documentale. Si è fatto ricorso, poi, all’analisi del contenuto delle informazioni così raccolte. Inoltre, si ritiene che il campionamento non probabilistico denominato a palla di neve sia stato quello più adatto alla ricerca. I principali risultati mettono in luce la responsabilità della famiglia nella comprensione delle problematiche dei comportamenti dei giovani, situandosi a livello della struttura e della dinamica relazionale, della pratica educativa genitoriale e, infine, della reazione dei genitori stessi ai comportamenti dei figli. Con riferimento a questi elementi che si collegano alla responsabilità familiare, sono state avanzate alcune proposte relative all’aiuto da fornire ai genitori per meglio esercitare le loro funzioni di padre e di madre. Résumé Cette étude met en exergue le phénomène des bandes délinquantes constitué d’adolescents appelés « microbes » en Côte d’Ivoire. Elle a pour objectif d’analyser le rôle de la famille dans la persistance de la délinquance de ces adolescents en conflit avec la loi. Ce travail de recherche qui a porté sur un échantillon de 75 individus, s’est déroulé dans le district Abidjan particulièrement dans la commune d’Abobo. De type qualitatif, cette étude repose sur l’hypothèse suivante : les familles des enfants dits « microbes » ont une grande responsabilité dans la persistance du comportement délinquant de leurs enfants. Pour atteindre les résultats, l’étude a eu recours à des instruments et techniques de recueil des données tels l’observation directe non participante, l’entretien semi-directif et la recherche documentaire. Pour l’analyse des données recueillies, l’analyse de contenu a été retenue. Aussi, l’échantillonnage non probabiliste de type boule de neige est celui adapté à cette étude. En termes de méthode de recherche, nous avons utilisé la phénoménologie. Les principaux résultats établissent la responsabilité de la famille dans la compréhension du trouble de comportements. Elle se situe au niveau de la structure et de la dynamique relationnelle, de la pratique éducative parentale et enfin, de la réaction parentale face aux comportements desdits enfants. Face à ces éléments constitutifs de la responsabilité familiale, des suggestions ont été faites dans le sens de l’aide à apporter aux parents dans l’exercice de la fonction de père et de mère. Abstract This study highlights the phenomenon of delinquent gangs of adolescents called “microbes” in Ivory Coast. It aims to analyze the role of the family in the persistence of delinquency of these adolescents in conflict with the law. This research work, which involved a sample of 75 individuals, took place in the Abidjan district, particularly in the Abobo commune. Of a qualitative nature, this study is based on the following hypothesis: the families of children known as “microbes” have a great responsibility in the persistence of the delinquent behavior of their children. To achieve the results, the study used data collection tools and techniques such as non-participant direct observation, semi-structured interviewing, and desk research. For the analysis of the data collected, the content analysis was retained. Also, non-probabilistic snowball type sampling is the one adapted to this study. In terms of the research method, we used phenomenology. The main findings establish the responsibility of the family in understanding the behavioral disorder. It is at the level of structure and relational dynamics, parental educational practice and finally, the parental reaction to the behavior of the said children. Faced with these elements of family responsibility, suggestions were made to help parents in the exercise of the function of father and mother.

International regulations in the field of juvenile justice have gradually been introduced ever since the foundation of international organizations dealing with juvenile justice issues. The fight against juvenile delinquency has been the subject of regional and global research, including several states of the international association. In this context the 2nd UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Treatment of Offenders was held, at which the Report "New forms of juvenile delinquency" was presented. In this report, for the first time, materials from several states were used, which met all principles and criteria. A comparative research had been carried out in almost all regions of the globe, whose findings were disseminated on that occasion. The proposals of the general rapporteur are recent and consist in creating special jurisdictions for young adults to assign cases to young adults in juvenile courts (from 18 to 21 years old), to divide the powers of the ordinary courts of law and the courts for juveniles, taking into account the seriousness of the offense, the degree of maturity of the offender, the decision of the court to refer the case to a particular court, the choice of the court by the offenders themselves. The entrustment of the offender to the common law court can only be favorable if addressing the treatment applied by the administrative bodies dealing with minors.

The theme of juvenile delinquency and its mechanisms is relevant because of the intense criminal character of this phenomenon, which seriously affects human interests; it endangers the fundamental values and norms recognized and accepted within a given community, preventing its functioning properly. Juvenile delinquency represents young people's violations and deviations from the rules of social cohabitation punishable by criminal law and is characterized by a series of distinct features that derive both from socio-economic and cultural conditions of the society and from the way the society perceives, sanctions and treats the offenses committed by minors.

This article presents the main findings of a study commissioned by the Office of the Undersecretary of Crime Prevention, under the Ministry of the Interior of Chile, and reflect on gender differences in the infringing behavior of girls and adolescents, especially those who enter the Family Integral Care Program (PAIF) 24 hours. The interpretative framework used for the analysis of it is that of feminist criminology and from this perspective it is considered how girls and adolescents have been historically relegated in the studies on juvenile delinquency and the need to incorporate in them the gender stratification in the patriarchal society. Especially in order to identify gender differences in adolescent female crime and its treatment.

While in France the historiography on juvenile delinquency has had a significant development, thanks to the contribution of civil societies such as AHES-PJM, but also thanks to academic work (Henri Gaillac, 1970; Elise Yvorel, 2007; Ludvine Bantigny, Ivan Jablonka, 2009; Sophie Victorien, 2011; Jean-Jacques Yvorel, 2012), in the French Antilles this issue has not been adressed so far, except for Gaston-Jean, Bouvenet, 1936.Relying on Jean-Jacques Yvorel’s definition of juvenile delinquency as a result of social construct, we will examine a register that was kept by the president of the Court of first instance in Fort-de-France. It gives information on the social and economic stakes and the strategies put in place for the management of juvenile delinquency during two successive periods: the end of the inter-war period (1937-1939) and the time when Martinique was placed under the authority of the Admiral Robert, the representative of the Vichy regime (1940-1943). This paper gives an account of the complex interaction between ethnicity, gender, class and the necessity of maintaining order within a colonial context when the judge had to take a decision regarding a youngster’s offense. Knowing the significance of social control and order for the colonial authorities, a necessity that was exacerbated under the Vichy regime, we may question the choice the judge made: protecting society from the juvenile delinquents or protecting and re-educating them.

The limitation of criminal liability is closely related to the promptness of the specialized bodies of the state in establishing the criminal liability and in applying the punishment corresponding to the crime. Thus, through prescription, the possibility of eliminating criminal liability was created when a period of time had elapsed since the crime was committed. The limitation of criminal liability consists in extinguishing the criminal legal report of conflict, in this case the state's right to establish the criminal liability and to apply the appropriate educational penalty / measure and, the obligation of the offender to bear the consequences of his actions, respectively.

On the basis of an ethnographic survey about young people followed by the Youth Judicial Protection Service (Projection judiciaire de la jeunesse, PJJ) in France, this article deals with the effects of the duality of juvenile justice (civil and penal) on the scale of their trajectories. Upstream from prosecutions, placements under child protection are one of the sequences of the disorders' chain of production. From the break marked by the first penal placement, the PJJ supervising leans diversely on civil cares, between hybridization of judicial registers, overlap, and definition of respective perimeters. Further down penal trajectories and beyond their majority, the return of these young people towards civil protectional channels turns out to be uncertain, nay compromised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The "colonie" for young male children of the Vaucluse Public Asylum, opened in 1876, is a pioneer although little known institution in the history of child psychiatry in the late 19th century. The study of the population of "colons" shows that this institution took charge of children and adolescents with mild forms of mental deficiency, considered socially maladjusted and often with a history of delinquency. For some of them, the "colonie" was just a temporary place of passage; but for others it was the first step of very long careers in mental institutions, as shown by two case studies of patient trajectories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social deviance characteristic of minors and adolescents in particular expresses types of social behaviors that lead to a deep concern on the part of society. These behaviors can be the result of failure in primary socialization, the absence of an affective climate in disorganized families, and are often determined by the impossibility of school, as a socializing entity, to compensate for the educational errors of the family of origin as well as the negative influence of peer groups. The failure of socialization can even lead to juvenile delinquency, behaviors that stray from the legal norm and fall under criminal law sanctions so that a part of these minors end up under the supervision of probation services or worse, in the prison system. Based on these considerations the study conducted aims to highlight some anomic behaviors of Arad County minors, their specific family environment, school environment, entourage as well as the formulation of measures regarding the decrease of deviant phenomena of minors.

This essay is a preliminary examination of crime and violence in postcolonial Kenyan fiction. It examines how three Kenyan writers have dealt with the themes of crime and violence in their fiction. Through examination of the fiction of John Kiriamiti, Meja Mwangi and John Kigia, the paper postulates that the prevalence of juvenile delinquents in this fiction and the related acts of violence and criminality could be read as indicators of the failure of the postcolonial Kenyan state to “include” these young men (and women) into the mainstream of society. The essay further argues that there is a correlation between marginalisation of the youth in society and their adoption of anti-social behaviour as strategies to access material resources.

In the nineteenth century, the family appears as a sanctuary under the authority of the father. Civil law as well ascriminal law attest the will of the State to support the head of the family. However, another approach is appearing more clearly with the criminal lawyers: it tends to assign the State as protector of children within the family.

The article describes the reasons for the high level of juvenile delinquency in the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as ways to deal with it within the framework of state development programs. Strategy «Kazakhstan – 2050» contains the basic provisions outlined in the guidelines of the United Nations for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution in Riyadh. Also noted the need for moral education of the younger generation and strengthening the role of the family in society. The system of measures to combat juvenile delinquency is based on the nature of the general social measures designed to ensure adequate standard of living, welfare, culture, upbringing and education of citizens.

The public debate always tackles the question of the juvenile delinquency’s evolution in behavioral terms. During the last decades, youth would have changed, they would be more violent, etc. This is a morale posture and classical decadentist discourse (« it was better by the past ») that receive empirical refutations, especially in self-reported surveys (showing the stability of problems) and criminal justice statistics (showing that offenses prosecuted are more frequent but not more serious). The sociological analysis allows to redefine the problem from the acknowledgement of the double instabilily of both legal and social status of those behaviors. First, violent behaviors are more incriminated (process of criminalization). Then, they are more denounced and prosecuted by police and justice (process of judiciarization). The main social evolutions are not to be search in youth behaviors but in adults’ reactions (more helpless and more punitive) around them. Last, in France, a problem appears with the concentration of difficulties in some urban areas suffering from several social disadvantages (process of segregation), that encourage a high level of some juveniles offenses.

Since the 1970s, given the transformations of the job market and the changes in “street culture”, professional morals replace “street morals” less easily than before, and the shop floor is less integrative for juvenile delinquents. In that sense, the importance of the role played by the institutions involved in the process of normalization has grown in proportion. By studying an integration system for juvenile delinquents, in a French banlieue, it is precisely that sort of ambition I wished to apprehend. Through the case studies of three young men, I explain the reasons why the young people involved in the system participate in it, and the conditions that need to be met for a street educator’s moral authority to be acknowledged. I underscore the acculturation that takes place at the heart of the system and the type of competences that can be acquired there. I show also, the stigmata linked to a delinquent past can always get in the way of the process and reactivate habits developed in the “street”.Desde os anos 70 do século xx, devido às transformações do mercado laboral e às mudanças registadas na “cultura de rua”, a moral profissional já não substitui a “moral da rua” tão facilmente quanto antes e o operariado tem menor capacidade de integração dos jovens delinquentes. Nesse sentido, aumentou proporcionalmente a importância do papel desempenhado pelas instituições envolvidas no processo de normalização. Foi precisamente esse tipo de ambição que pretendi captar ao estudar um programa de integração de delinquentes juvenis num subúrbio francês. Através de estudos de caso de três rapazes, explico as razões por que os jovens envolvidos nesse programa participam nele e as condições que terão de verificar-se para que a autoridade moral de um educador de rua seja reconhecida. Destaco a aculturação que acontece no âmago deste programa e o tipo de competências que podem ser adquiridas através dele. Mostro também como o estigma associado a um passado de delinquência pode sempre interferir no processo e reactivar hábitos desenvolvidos na “rua”.

The article relies on the culture of control theoretical assumptions to analyse the impact of neoliberal social policies on Portuguese youth justice. At the turn of the 21st century, Portuguese youth justice was subjected to significant structural and formal changes, which need to be read in the light of social and political movements. The analysis provided by Garland (2001), recognized as one of the most influent on social control, becomes vital in the presentation and interpretation of such developments. Although some aspects of his thesis lack applicability to Portugal, Garland’s work offers a useful and complex lens through which the evolution of Portuguese youth justice deserves to be analysed.

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O artigo relata pesquisa que quer compreender como a constituição subjetiva de crianças e adolescentes que vivem na rua, os chamados meninos de rua, articula-se ao laço social, a partir da especificidade da escuta psicanalítica de crianças e adolescentes. Um processo de desqualificação e desvalorização social da família destes jovens, propicia a ruptura destes com a família e escola, levando-os para a rua. Tal ruptura faz surgir o discurso social, que substitui o discurso dos pais, de onde poderiam extrair os significantes de sua filiação e sexuação, e destitui estes meninos do lugar de crianças e adolescentes, justifica o abandono, o descaso e o medo, e oferece-lhes como única possibilidade de nomeação a identidade de delinqüente.The article reports a research on how the subjective constitution of children and adolescents who live on the streets, known as street kids, relate to the social ties, based on the specific psychoanalical hearing of children and adolescents. A process of social disqualification and depreciation of these children’s families, conducts them to break up with their families and schools, leading them to the streets. This rupture brings the social address about, which substitutes the parents address, from which they could take the meaning of their filiation and sexuality. This rupture also deprives them of the condition of being children and adolescents, justifying the abandonment, the neglect and the fear and offering them the only possibility of an identity as a delinquent.

Over the two decades post-Revolution, the evolution of juvenile delinquency in Romania was influenced both by the emergence of new "risk" factors, such as: lack of jobs, poverty of the population, increasing families with 'problems' and the number of abandoned children, intensification of destructuring of traditional families, changing family model promoted by society, decresing the role of social institutions involved in the formation of young personality, and as well the ineffective system for reintegrating juvenile offenders, through the abolition of institutions included in this system. In this paper, we intend to make a diagnosis of the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency, in the county Caras-Severin, focused mainly on crimes of theft, and identifying the most effective measures for the prevention of this phenomenon. In this sense, after we make a brief review of the main explanatory paradigm of juvenile delinquency, we first identify criminogenic individual factors, family and relational involved in juvenile delinquency identified in the county Caras-Severin, then based on analyzes and statistical correlations, we establish relations between criminal elements identified, and then finally we try to develop a predictive model of risk factors in committing acts of theft. Based on the findings, we identify several intervention measures that can be applied in the county Caras-Severin, to prevent and reduce juvenile delinquency.

Résumé Introduction Les abus sexuels dans l’enfance sont reconnus comme un puissant facteur de risque par rapport à la délinquance à l’adolescence. Objectif Notre étude a pour objectif d’explorer les facteurs de protection par rapport à la délinquance qui soutiennent le processus de résilience au sein d’une population d’adolescentes ayant été victimes d’abus sexuel. Méthode L’échantillon se compose de 23 adolescentes âgées de 12 à 18 ans ayant été victimes d’abus sexuels dont 15 sont délinquantes et 8 non délinquantes. Les victimes ont été comparées à un groupe témoin d’adolescentes non victimes ( n = 108) sur plusieurs dimensions : perception de soi, agressivité et stress post-traumatique. Au niveau de l’échantillon de victimes ont été analysées les caractéristiques familiales (attachement et climat familial), sociales (associations aux pairs) et environnementales (réactions au dévoilement, présence de ressources familiales et extra-familiales, prise en charge psychologique). Résultats Les adolescentes victimes d’abus sexuels présentent une estime de soi plus faible et une perception de soi négative dans tous les domaines sauf au niveau de la perception de leur attirance romantique. Les adolescentes résilientes non engagées dans la délinquance sont celles qui ont bénéficié d’un soutien paternel immédiat et différé, pendant et après le dévoilement, de ressources extra-familiales et d’une prise en charge psychologique. Il s’agit donc là de facteurs de protection contrant le risque d’engagement délinquentiel et soutenant le processus de résilience. Conclusion La mobilisation des pères (lorsqu’ils ne sont pas l’abuseur) et le soutien au réinvestissement de leur fonction paternelle lors de la phase de dévoilement apparaissent comme une cible d’intervention à développer. Introduction This study concerns resilience related to juvenile delinquency among victims of sexual abuse: sexual abuse has been recognized as a powerful risk factor for the emergence of deviant and criminal behavior. Objective Our study aims to explore and highlight the protective factors that prevent victims of sexual abuse from engaging in a delinquent trajectory. Method The sample consists of teenage girls who have revealed, at minimum last year, their intergenerational abuse. These girls, all between 12 and 18 years old are divided into sub-groups: the non-offender victims and the victims who are also offenders. Each teenage victim is compared to a normative population on different psychological functioning dimensions: self-esteem (Harter's self-perception profile for adolescents), aggressiveness (the Buss–Perry Aggression questionnaire) and post-traumatic stress, with the Impact of Event scale Revised, (IES-R)-Horowitz. We analyze family characteristics, such as familial attachment and family climate, social characteristics, such as associations with peers, and environmental factors, such as reactions to revelations of sexual abuse, the presence of family and extra-familial resources, psychological care. Results and conclusion The results show that teenage victims of sexual assault present lower self-esteem and a negative self-perception in all fields, except for the perception of their attractiveness. Over-investment of this single dimension of self-perception can lead to a sexualization of their relationships with others and expose them to the risk of sexual revictimisation. The comparative analyses between the adolescent delinquent and non-delinquent victims highlight risk factors in connection with setting them off on a delinquent trajectory and protective factors supporting their resilience. The results highlight specific characteristics to the offender juvenile victims supporting a delinquent trajectory: aggressiveness, PTSD, defensive strategy of avoidance and characteristics of abuse (chronicity of abuse). The victim committed in delinquent trajectories presented more aggressiveness, consumeristic behaviour, post-traumatic stress and defensive strategy of avoidance than non-offender victims. Delinquent behaviour, just like substance abuse, could be a strategy of risk avoidance in connection with reliving sexual trauma, which hinders the process of resilience. Compared to the process of resilience, immediate and differed paternal support (during and after the revelations) seems the most important factor of protection. Being able to benefit from psychological councelling and having an extra-familial resource (a significant relationship with someone in the social environment) also constitute factors that support the resilience of these teenagers and prevent them from going down the path of delinquency. The interventions should aim at establishing a therapeutic alliance with these young girls during the early process of revealing the sexual abuse and mobilize and activate the support of the father (when he is not the abuser) or of a meaningful paternal figure as early as possible during the revealing phase and to accompany him in this restructuring function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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