Begging and vagrancy as social and safety problems

Abstract

Begging and vagrancy are complex social phenomena with social features and safety problems. These related phenomena have been an integral part of the phenomenon of poverty and typical deviant behaviors because they question the value of human labor. In the contemporary social context begging has a very impressive security challenges for society and the state because of the clear link between this phenomenon and organized crime, trafficking and children, prostitution, and abuse and child abuse. In criminological terms of safety-begging is still impressive and international character, in terms of phenomenology phenomenon in terms of necessity for the Country in combating these social deviations and their criminal elements. The paper demonstrates the basic social-security and criminological characteristics of begging and vagrancy: their historical context, characteristics, types, causes, consequences and characteristics of social/public reaction. This paper gives definitions of these phenomena as well as a brief overview of the main theoretical explanations.

Prosjačenje i skitnja su složene društvene pojave s odlikama socijalnog i bezbednosnog problema. Ove srodne pojave su neodvojivi deo fenomena siromaštva, ali i tipična devijantna ponašanja zato što dovode u pitanje vrednost ljudskog rada. U savremenom društvenom kontekstu prosjačenje ima vrlo upečatljive bezbednosne izazove za društvo i državu zbog jasnih veza s organizovanim kriminalom, trgovinom ljudima i decom, prostitucijom, kao i zloupotrebom i zlostavljanjem dece. U kriminološkobezbednosnom smislu prosjačenje danas ima i upečatljiv međunarodni karakter, i u pogledu fenomenologije pojave i u pogledu neophodnosti saradnje država u suzbijanju ove društvene devijacije i njenih kriminalnih elemenata. U radu su pokazane osnovne socijalne i bezbednosno-kriminološke karakteristike prosjačenja i skitnje: istorijski kontekst, obeležja, tipovi, uzroci, posledice i karakteristike društvene/državne reakcije. Problematizovana je definicija ovih pojava i dat kratak pregled glavnih teorijskih objašnjenja.