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Did the juvenile justice act fulfil its objectives?comment,explain it on about 500 words

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Answered by yegneshreddy
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juvenile act came on 15th January 2016

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
Answered by omegads03
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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.

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