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Juvenile Delinquency in India:  Problems and Remedies CONCEPT AND CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: Juvenile means any person who is not able to understand the nature of the act or has not reached at the age to behave maturely. In the terms of law, juvenile means a person who has not attained a particular age prescribed in law to make him liable for any crime committed by him and make him liable for his criminal acts like an adult person.  An interdisciplinary study on juvenile delinquency discloses that across the world, many behavioural changes occur in the juveniles/adolescents, which are related to the sudden changes in their body due to hormonal surge, associated with puberty. The changes are most apparent in physical parameters, for example, change in height and weight of the adolescents and are soon followed by other sexual and physical changes of maturity. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: Delinquency is such a behaviour of a juvenile which is socially not permitted in any soci...

Juvenile Delinquency in India : Causes  and Prevention                                                                                       - By Hrishabh Jain Juvenile delinquency is the criminal activity charged by a person who is under the age of 18 years. In recent period these criminal activities are increasing rapidly due to many reasons and circumstance. In most of the places juveniles charged with serious crimes, such as robbery or murder which are transferred to criminal courts and tried as an adult. Sometimes prosecutors make this decision, or sometimes allow transfers require a hearing to consider the age and record of the juvenile, the type of crime, and the likelihood that the youth can be helped by the juvenile court. As a result of a get tough attitu...