JUVENILE JUSTICE ACT AND REFORMATION OF JUVENILES IN THE OBSERVATION HOMES: A CRITIQUE
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Juveniles, Delinquent, Observation Home, Assault, ReformationAbstract
‘No child will commit an offence out of his/her will, they are driven by their circumstances’
A child is presumed to be innocent. The nature of crime which he commits reflects the circumstances which prompted him/her to commit such offence. The justice delivery system in every country requires that such child should be reformed through correctional measures which would be provided by the government or nongovernmental institutions in the children care institutions i.e. shelter home, observation home, special homes and place of safety etc. However, juvenile suffers abuses, hunger and lives in unhygienic conditions in these children care institutions. Therefore, sometimes they run away from these homes or turn into more aggressive person. It shows that the purpose for which the observation homes are established have failed in achieving the objectives. Therefore, in this paper the conditions of the ‘observation home’, where the children who have committed crimes are housed, are analyzed and discussed. An endeavour is also made to find out whether these observation homes really provide the rehabilitation and reformation of the juveniles for which the Juvenile Justice Act is enacted.
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