| Abstract [eng] |
Lithuania had a lot of changes and a lot of challenges in the last decade of passed century. The main factor, caused those changes was on March 11th, 1990, the Re-establishment of the State of Lithuania. The political re-establishment of the state made the new trouble for the new state, and they had to be solved with the changes in social, economic, legal and cultural sphere. Another very important social change was the May 1st, 2004, when Lithuania joined the European Union. It also caused a lot of changes in daily life. Social changes had not only the positive effect, but negative side effect, too: a lot of new cases of alcoholism, narcotic addiction, suicides, unemployment, emigration, urbanisation, poverty appeared. The criminality has also grown in Lithuania. It will never be the same low index of criminality as before the re-establishment of state, although it never showed the real situation. Nowadays the rising level of the science and technologies, the furious speed of life, the separation of individuals in the society affect the rising criminality in all over the world. The criminality, it’s development and growth is analysed in this work, linking it with social and other – political, economic, legal – changes in Lithuania (1990 – 2006). The criminality is analysed through the prism of separate types of crimes (violent crime, property crime, white-collar and organized crime, public order crime, cyber crime and technology) and separate crime, seeking to determine the main causes of criminality and it’s links with social changes. |
