Changing Juvenile Laws will not really help

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youthens

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Change in Juvenille laws will not help in curbing crimes that are increasing day by day. After the Delhi gang rape and the subsequent death of the victim, where a juvenile was involved, people demanded lowering of the age of juvenile from 18 yrs to 16 yrs. However, I don't think that it is going to help in any way. What are your views? Do you think that changing Juvenile Laws will not really help?
 
I agree with you that the change in juvenile laws will not help in reducing the juvenile crimes that are escalating. It is important that juveniles should be given proper guidance and their energy should be channelized in the proper direction to prevent them from getting involved in anti social activities. Peer pressure also is a reason for such crimes and parents should be more careful while parenting the teens.
 
ProudIndian said:
Change in Juvenille laws will not help in curbing crimes that are increasing day by day. After the Delhi gang rape and the subsequent death of the victim, where a juvenile was involved, people demanded lowering of the age of juvenile from 18 yrs to 16 yrs. However, I don't think that it is going to help in any way. What are your views? Do you think that changing Juvenile Laws will not really help?
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I am in complete agreement with this. Just because in one particular case someone can not be given a a strict punishment because he is juvenile does not call for the juvenile laws to be changed.
 
The pernicious outcomes of the Delhi gang rape has started to cool off as India enters into the New Year. All the clamor demanding justice and respect for women have started to fizzle out. In the midst of it all a new demand has come to light, the demand for the reduction in juvenile age from 18 to 16; a juvenile is a person below the age in which his/her criminal prosecution is not possible. As per the rule, a juvenile is kept in some reformatory school or a borstal jail to inculcate good ethics and manners. The want of reducing a juvenile’s age has gained momentum after a young boy was found to be one of the perpetrators in the heinous Delhi gang-rape and the subsequent death of the girl. People demanding lowering of the age of juvenile from 18 yrs to 16 yrs however, it won’t help in any way. Law enforcement officers need to develop a good sense of discretion and allow for a change of heart and attitude when working with juvenile delinquents. We must develop the right idea and the right steps to create a new and better way of thinking about juvenile delinquency. We don’t have a solution yet, but the law enforcement community has to start thinking differently before change can occur.
 
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