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Behavioural Disorders

prevent the occurrence of juvenile delinquency, which is a significant
contribution of this research. The sample of examinees (N =185)was
represented by children and minors from the area of the municipality
of Pula who, in the period from 1979 to 1981, due to the commission of
a criminal offense, were reported to the then Municipal Public Prose-
cutor’s Office in Pula.
2. A more significant research was the one that was carried out from 1992
to 1995 as part of the scientific research project ‘The influence of so-
cial and economic factors on the structure and development of crime
in Croatia.’ The project was carried out by the Faculty of Special Educa-
tion and the Faculty of Criminal Sciences, University of Zagreb. For the
area of Pula, the aim of the research was to determine the characteris-
tics of the personality and behaviour of minor perpetrators of violent
and property offences in the area of the local jurisdiction of the then
District Court in Pula, assessed by experts from the Centre for Social
Welfare (Radetić 1994). The sample of examinees consisted of 129 mi-
nor perpetrators of violent and property offences who, in the period
between 1988 and 1993, were sentenced to death for the said crimi-
nal acts, had a sanction imposed on them, or the criminal proceedings
against them were suspended for reasons of expediency.
3. The following scientific research was carried out from 1998 to 2002 as
part of the scientific research project ‘Models of interventions for the
purpose of preventing behavioural disorders of children, youth and
adults in the Republic of Croatia.’ The leader of the project was the Fac-
ulty of Education and Rehabilitation of the University of Zagreb. The
research was focused on studying the so-called risk factors, but also on
the identification of existing positive strengths both in the children or
minors, as well as in their environment, with the purpose of assessing
the need for treatment of children and minors with behavioural disor-
ders for the city of Pula. The assessment of the riskiness of a certain area
of risk/needs was based on the personal judgments of experts working
at the Centre for Social Welfare. The sample of examinees for the city of
Pula consisted of 100 children, minors and young adults (Radetić-Paić
2002a; 2002b; 2003).
4. Furthermore, from 2007 to 2014, the scientific research project ‘Coordi-
nating interventions with the needs of children and youth at risk: de-
velopment of a model’ was carried out by the Faculty of Education and
Rehabilitation of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. The project had sev-
eral goals: to develop, standardize and equip for practical implementa-

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