A Study On Poverty Areas And Effects On Juvenile Delinquency

C. Dhanalaksmi, B.Com.LL.B (Hons), Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, SOEL

ABSTRACT:

The crimes which are committed by the minor or the child below the age of 18 years is termed as Juvenile delinquency. It is the unnatured behaviour or opposite to the normal social life of the juveniles. This is not only because of family issues but, also there are various factors which makes a juvenile to commit a crime which is not their nature. The juveniles make crimes when lose their freedom, peer pressures, loss of parents in the early life, and so on. The main cause for juvenile delinquency is due to the poverty. Due to these things the juvenile likely to commit a crime.

KEYWORDS: juvenile delinquency, poverty, crimes

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