MODEL OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF POLICE OFFICERS IN JUVENILE DELINQUENCY’S PREVENTION

Abstract

The article presents various scientific approaches to the interpretation of the terms “prevention”, “juvenile delinquency prevention”. There are determined levels of preventive work with minors: neuropsychological, general psychological, age psychological, pedagogical. There are analyzed the normative-legal acts concerning delinquency’s prevention among children. The main acts are the following “Concept for the development of criminal justice for minors in Ukraine”, the Laws of Ukraine “On bodies and services for children and special institutions for children”, “On the prevention of violence in families”, “On ensuring the organizational and legal conditions for social protection of orphans and children deprived of parental care ”, “On the National Program National Action Plan for the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” for the period up to 2016. It has been established that, carrying out the prevention of juvenile delinquency, juvenile police officers perform diagnostic, prognostic, organizational, informational, managerial, and corrective functions. It has been substantiated the model of the formation of the professional competence of police officers for the juvenile delinquency’s prevention. This model consists of interconnected blocks. In the organizational-target block, the model provides for setting a goal, defining a subject, an object and principles (assistance to employees of the PDN ATS in preventive activities, as well as psychocorrection of deviant forms of behavior, the formation of attitudes of law-abiding behavior in juvenile offenders); in the content block – defining the tasks and content of preventive work with juvenile offenders (organization of interaction with participants in the preventive process, socialization and resocialization of juvenile offenders, formation of professional competence of juvenile police officers); in the technological – the definition of forms, methods, technologies, techniques and means of preventive activities (psychodiagnostics, psychocorrection, socio-psychological counseling, etc.) and in the evaluative and effective – the development of criteria, indicators, levels of formation of the professional competence of police officers for the juvenile delinquency’s prevention.