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As we can tell that youth is the future of a given society, we can state that the young people's criminality is the criminality of tomorrow. In this respect, the data resulting from the research we present here are not to make us optimist. Actually, we notice that the criminality and recidivism of young people increase both absolutely and relatively. We believe that it is high time to sharpen the attention of all organizations and organs which struggle against this criminality, towards the whole of it and to stop to calm ourselves with the small figures which criminal court statistics present us. In fact, they reflect only the gravest cases of criminal manifestations of criminality among the adolescents. At last, it appears that in the conditions of the totalitarian State in Bulgaria the effectiveness of the legal socialisation of young people was very low.

The aim of this article is to provide a mainly quantitative study of incarcerated populations, in relation to their size, their structure, their evolution, and the mechanisms of their renewal. Three dimensions have been emphasised: time, space and individuals. Chronological analysis provides a base for the study over time of the phenomenon of carcéral «inflation», using the three measures of population, flows and length of incarceration, and looking at the evolution of socio-demographic and penal structures, input processes, projections, and studying particular events. International comparisons include the creation of the annual penal statistics of the Council of Europe (S. PACE), as they affected the prisons and non-carceral penalties, allowing the growth of research on criminality and criminal justice. The last type of research has been focused on analysing cohorts and concerns three areas: the study of penal careers and lenghts of detention, managing longterm prisoners, and recidivism rates.