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FUNCTIONAL DEFICIENCIES REGARDING THE FAMILYAND THE JUVENILE DELINQUENCYILEANA ROMANIn the following material we will insist upon the problems caused by achild as part of the socialization process within a family, for whom, aftercommitting some acts with antisocial characteristics, must be established thepower of discernment and the responsibility. This implies the knowledge of thedelinquent’s personality, because the offence isn’t considered anymore a simplelegal category, a juridical abstraction, but it is analyzed as a human deed withantisocial significance, committed by a real person.But, unlike the individuality (which represents the biologicalcharacteristics of each person, giving the finishing touches of his/her uniqueexistence regarding the physical, chemical, serological, etc. features), thepersonality represents “the result of the social environment activity, in its entirecomplexity, over each person or over the human population that he belongs. It isa process which begins early and coincides, in the same time interfering, withthe developing of the biological individuality” 1 .In another words, the process of transformation of the biologicalindividual into a human being can take place only by means of interpersonalrelationships that is the social life.But the social environment doesn’t act directly and in only one way onthe individual, but through the instrumentality of one’s individual particularities.That’s why, the dismissal of the personality implies, on one side the wellknowing of the psychical activity and on the other side, the emphasizing of theexternal influences that determine a certain behavior.Defining the personality as a dynamic organization, inside theindividual, of the psycho-physical systems that determine the adapting to thesurrounding environment in a unique way 2 , lead us to the premise that, havingthe characteristics of a dynamic identity in a permanent adaptation, thepersonality is the result of the interaction between the psychic potential and theinfluence of the cultural models, transmitted through the agency of social groupswhere the individual lives or lived.In the present we renounce more and more at the previous methods ofapproaching this problem. The contemporary reality proved that each of the1 Ralph Linton, Fundamentul cultural al personalităţii, Bucureşti, The Scientific andEncyclopedic Publishing House, 1986, p. 84.2 G. W. Allport, Structura şi dezvoltare a personalităţii, Bucureşti,The Didactic andPedagogic Publishing House, 1981, p.111.ARHIVELE OLTENIEI, Serie nouă, nr. 21, 2007, p. 263–272