Did the juvenile justice act fulfil its objectives?comment,explain it on about 500 words
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it is the act that heinous crimes can be tries as adults
we won't became a rapest at 13 years
sometimes it will not work also attitude may work
The problem of juvenile delinquency is not a product of modern world of 21st Century, as shown by historical evidence that it occurs in all societies simple as well as complex, that is, wherever and whenever a human relationship is affected between a group of individuals leading to malad justments and conflict. In developing countries that forms the third world the problem of juvenile delinquency is very serious. With reference to India,the share of INDIAN PENAL CODE crimes committed by juveniles to total IPC crimes reported in the country during 2003-2005 remained static at 1.0% which marginally increased to 1.1% in 2006 and remained static in 2007.
April 2018 and joint family system, atrocities and abuses by parents or guardians, degraded educational system, the influence of media besides the unhealthy living conditions of slums and such other conditions explain the phenomena of juvenile delinquency.The neglect of children by their parents, family, society and the nation create detrimental effect on their physical, mental growth and over all development. Needless to say that most of the factors causing delinquency are in plenty in the Indian context and any attempt to prevent and control them can be fruitful for society. After all, the children represent the nation and the coming future of the country. Even international instance like UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice, also known as Beijing Rules, 19855and UN Convention on the Rights of Child, 19896, are notable and has articulated the global consensus on giving special attention and treatmentto the children who come in conflict with law.The term ‘Juvenile justice’ was used for thefirst time by the legislature by the state of Illinois, USA, in 1899, while passing the Juvenile Court Act. The approach under laying this law was that juvenile offenders should not be meted out the same punitive and retaliatory treatment as adults but rather given individual attention for their own protection as well as thatof the society. The word ‘Juvenile’ has been derived from Latin term ‘juvenis’ meaning thereby Young. The term ‘delinquency’ has also been derived from the term do (away from) and liqueur (to leave). The Latin initiative ‘delinquere’ translate as to emit in its original earliest sense.The term ‘juvenile delinquency’ applies to the “violation of criminal code and /or pursuit of certain patterns of behavior disapproved of for children and young adolescents”. Thus, both age and behavioral infractions prohibited in the statutes are important in the concept of juvenile delinquency.
April 2018 India has a long history of Juvenile Legislation that originated in British Raj. The Apprentices Act, 1850 is the first law meant to deal with the children in distress who are to be trained for trade and industry. Even the penal laws such as the Indian Penal Code, 1860 not only clearly exempts children under the age of seven years from criminal responsibility (Section 82) but also exempts children between the age of seven to twelve years, who have not attained sufficient maturity of understanding tojudge the nature and consequences of their conduct, from criminal responsibility (Section 83). The Act also provides some protection to the children from the evil designs of the adults (Section 363-A).The Reformatory School Act came into being in 1876 and later amended in 1897, was the next landmark legislation in the treatment of juvenile in conflict with law. It empowered local government to establish reformatory schools. Under the Act, the sentencing court could detain boys insuch institutions for a period of two to seven years but they would not be kept in the reformatory schools after they had attained the age of eighteen years. There was also a provision to license out boys over fourteen years of age if suitable employment could be found. In Bombay Presidency, the Act was applicable to boys under sixteen years of age, while elsewhere it applied to boys under fifteen years of age.The Code of Criminal Procedure of 1898 provided specialized treatment for juvenile offenders. The Code also envisaged the commitment of juvenile offenders up-to the age of fifteen years to Reformatory Schools and provided probation for good conduct to offenders up-to the age of twenty one. Subsequent Indian children Acts passed by the Presidencies and provinces maintained this thinking. These laws contained provisions for the establishment of a specialized mechanism for the identification of handling and treatment of children and juveniles. In this regard, recommendations of the Indian jails committee, 1919-20, gave an added impetus to legislative action. In the post independence period; the Government of India was seized of the problems among others, of juvenile justice particularly in the centrally administered union territories.