Juvenile correctional facilities are public social welfare institutions that act with the aim of providing continuous professional assistance and support for the younger population and children with behavioral problems and/or conflict with the law. Within the framework of the activities of all institutions of this type, educational measures are being implemented with the aim of reconstructing or building a socially acceptable system of values, attitudes and habits. Given the problematic behaviour of the residents of juvenile correctional facilities, there are frequent occurrences of intentional or unintentional bodily injury amongst the rehabilitants. Bodily injuries are divided into physical and chemical. Physical injuries are violent health damage caused by the action of physical agents and their energy, while chemical injuries are injuries that are chemically induced. The purpose of this paper is to inspect available literature to raise awareness of peer and institutional violence in social welfare and to test the hypothesis that physical injuries within jouvenile correctional facilities do not differ from the bodily injury characteristics present in the general population. Judicial literature in the narrow sense does not cover the specific area of bodily injuries among the population of juvenile correctional facilities, while the search of bibliographic databases „Pubmed“ and „Web of Science“ available on the internet provided insight into 174 scientific articles for keywords „juvenile correction“. From the study of scientific research from the aforementioned sources, it is not possible to draw concrete conclusions to support any side of the hypothesis of the comparison of bodily injury characteristics in juvenile correctional facilities in relation to the general population.