YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. Decrease of the number of crimes committed by juveniles is noticed in Armenia during the recent years. As the Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by the RA Police Public Relations and Information Department, if 741 cases of crimes committed by juveniles were fixed in 1997, 506 cases were fixed in 2006. 1525 juveniles, including 3 girls being engaged in prostitution and 3 addicts, were in prophylactic registration at departments of the RA Police Service on Juveniles Cases in the last year for committing crimes and other offences. The predominating part of crimes committed by juveniles are cases of robbery. So, 387 from 553 cases of crime committed in 2003 by juveniles were cases of robbery, 379 from 557 cases in 2004, 354 from 511 cases in 2005, and 361 from 506 cases of crime committed in 2006 were cases of robbery. Cases of small plunder when the stolen thing was not of essential value or did not essentially damage the suffered person make the considerable part of those robberies. 1 case of murder (1 in 2005), 22 cases of hooliganism (12 ones in 2005), 17 robberies (24 in 2005), 44 cases of bodily injury (47 in 2005) were committed by juveniles in 2006. It was also mentioned that mainly socially needy and one-sided orphaned juveniles take the way of crime.

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