Annotation

This article examines the historical experience of selecting methods and approaches to preventing juvenile delinquency from 1917 to 1941. Four distinct periods are identified, each defined by specific characteristics resulting from different combinations of educational paradigms and coercive methods. The author comes to the logical conclusion that in the pre-revolutionary period, in matters of juvenile delinquency prevention, the state largely relied on private public institutions; in the Soviet period, the state took full responsibility for the result and mobilized society. It is precisely because of this that the Soviet model of juvenile delinquency prevention appears more functional, as it allowed for the entire prevention system to be restructured in a relatively short period of time.