YOUTH AS AN AT-RISK GROUP

U radu je analiziran odnos koncepta rizika i mladosti kao životnog doba koje rizik uključuje kao inherentno svojstvo. Proces sazrijevanja podrazumijeva rizik, a on je na različite načine u odnosu s društvenim i kulturnim konceptom rizika koji je svojstven, kako stvarnosti kasnog kapitalizma, tako i političkim i ideološkim ekspertizma koje teže njime upravljati. Diskurs rizika često se pojavljuje u javnosti kao negativan, uznemirujući i opominjući stav prema mladima označavajući ih kao kategoriju u nevolji. Istaknute su sličnosti i razlike koje postoje u društvima razvijenog Zapada i postsocijalističkim društvima. Analiza rizičnog ponašanja i koncepta rizika uključuje i kulturnu kriminologiju koja antisocijalna ponašanja i kaznene prakse sagledava u kontekstu identitetskih promjena i kulturnih simbola koji su simptom dubokih društvenih promjena u postmodernom društvu.This paper analyses the relation between the risk concept and youth as a stage of life for which risk is an inherent property. The process of maturing implies risk, and this risk relates to the social and cultural concept of risk, as is characteristic for the reality of late capitalism. It also relates to the political and ideological expertise striving to manage it. Risk discourse often appears in public as a negative, disturbing and cautionary attitude towards young people, marking them as a category that is in peril, trouble. Similarities and differences that exist in the developed Western and post-socialist societies are stressed. The analysis of risk behaviour and the concept of risk include cultural criminology that views anti-social behaviour and criminal practice in the context of identity changes and cultural symbols which are the symptom of deep social changes in the post-modern society