Juvenile Delinquency

   How to prevent Juvenile Delinquency? Prevention of juvenile crime is necessary for children. Firstly, identification of such juveniles and then providing them with the required treatment is of utmost importance. These adolescents become habitual offenders if not timely stopped from committing offenses. Moreover, the most effective way to prevent juvenile delinquency has indubitably been to assist children and their families from the very beginning. Many Jurists and criminologists suggest various provisions for the prevention of juvenile delinquency. Some of the provisions that are very useful for the welfare, development, and growth of juveniles have been mentioned below. Individual Programs - It involves the prevention of delinquency through counseling, psychotherapy, and proper education. Environmental Programs - involves the employment of techniques to change the socio-economic context likely to promote delinquency. Prevention of juvenile delinquency requires a lot of ef...

  Claim of Juvenility The first and most debatable question among the legal fraternity and socialists is the “claim of juvenility”. The claim of Juvenility is to be decided by Juvenile Justice Board. The Board has to decide the claim of juvenility before the court proceedings but the claim of juvenility can be raised before the court at any stage of proceedings and even after the disposal of the matter by the Board. The Board had to consider Rule 12 of the Juvenile Justice Rules, 2007 in order to determine the claim of juvenility. In the case of KulaiIbrahim v. State of Coimbatore, it was observed by the Court that the accused has the right to raise the question of juvenility at any point of time during the trial or even after the disposal of the case under Section 9 of Juvenile Justice Act, 2015. Juvenile Justice System in India Like other countries, India has also made legal provisions that mainly and specifically deal with the rights and protection of juvenile offenders ...