A Criminological Review of the Abuse of Teenagers Due to the Influence of Alcoholic Beverages (North Kolaka Police Case Study)

Abstract

This study aims to determine the factors that cause adolescents to commit abuse due to the influence of alcoholic beverages in Lasusua District. Besides that, this research is also intended to find out what efforts have been made by the North Kolaka Police in tackling abuse by teenagers due to the influence of alcoholic beverages in Lasusua District. The type of problem approach used in this study is an empirical legal approach, namely research obtained in the field based on the quantitative. In seeking information about the factors that cause abuse by teenagers due to the influence of alcoholic beverages, the researchers asked several questions to the objects studied, namely the police and village heads and the community, about the factors that caused abuse by teenagers due to the influence of alcoholic beverages. The results of this study are: 1). Factors that cause abuse by teenagers due to the influence of alcoholic beverages in the Legal Region of the North Kolaka Police are friends and the environment around the perpetrators who tend to misbehave, the existence of disputed objects, unstable mentality, and the provision of alcoholic drinks during celebrations and harvest festivals. 2) Efforts to deal with abuse by teenagers due to the influence of alcoholic beverages in the Legal Territory of the North Kolaka Police, namely making prevention efforts by conducting patrols and carrying out outreach and prevention efforts.