Juvenile Justice System Essay

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Children ought to have been the subject of prime focus of development planning, research, and welfare in India because of their thin and unadulterated composition but it has not been so. Majority of children in India do not continue to live their childhood even if they are protected against abuse and exploitation under constitution’s vision of healthy and happy childhood through various national children policies. As conceived by legislation, Juvenile Justice System of India (hereafter referred to as JJS) aims at providing care, protection, treatment, development, and rehabilitation of delinquent juveniles but the services and care provided to them have been criticized insufficient and substandard.

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Crime control model.

Like most of the Other Juvenile justice systems, the JJS in India too cannot be described entirely in terms of one of these models but rather in terms of a combination of them, which features from the Welfare, modified justice, justice, and crime control models.

JJS is one of the several measures taken by the state to attain the vision mentioned in the Constitution of India for the care, protection and welfare of children. The constitution recognises the special status of children through Articles 15(3), 24, 39(e) and (f) and 45. National Policy for Children which was adopted in 1974 in India connotes that children are extremely important national asset. In pursuance of the constitutional directions, various laws have been enacted which cover a wide range of matters relating to children, for example, adoption, maintenance, guardianship, legitimacy, labour, education, anti-smoking, delinquency, neglect, and so on. Since the survey conducted in 1979 by the Indian Law Institute, counting more than 250 state and Central enactments relating to children, statutes have been passed, among which prominent Acts include the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1985, the Juvenile Justice Act 1986 (hereafter referred to as JJA), the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (hereafter referred to as JJ (C&P) Act) and Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection Amendment Act), 2015. The latter has become the sole repository of Juvenile justice

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