THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR IN ROMANIAN SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT

The degradation of the social values leads to the vulnerability of certain categories of population and to a state of anomie in terms of the loss of state institutions authority or leads to the institutionalization of informal criminal behavior. This paper sets out to study the socio-cultural determinants of criminal behavior in Romania. According to the results, there is a bidirectional causality running from the level of education to criminal behavior, a unidirectional causality running from poverty to persons charged investigated by the police according to the residence areas as foreigners and a unidirectional causality running from density of population described by total level to persons charged investigated by the police according to the rural residence areas. Due to differentiated opportunities of individuals of a society, that does not allow the relative and equal access to the values and social goods, it can be appreciated the variability in the deviant and delinquent behaviors, depending on different times by various norms and social rules of a particular country.