Adolescence Education Programme: Rethinking The Criminal Justice System Through The Lens Of Preventive Education
- IJLLR Journal
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Sushree Sukanya Das, Madhusudan Law University
ABSTRACT
Adolescence is the most critical phase of an individual’s course of life that essentially determines how the fundamental structure of a person’s mind will be shaped for his lifetime. An unregulated adolescence shaped by lack of proper care, discipline, distorted perception of reality and unhealthy environment manifests itself into a mind that often creates either perpetrators or victims within the adolescent phase or in future. In today’s fast-moving world where information and content junks are rapidly overflowing around us, what needs to be taken care of is to regulate the mind of an adolescent which is most vulnerable and receptive to everything good and bad picked up from the growing environment.
Education being the greatest tool of regulating individual action helps in navigating through the path of choosing the right and healthy course of action. Quality education as an important facet of universal right to education promises a society which is not just perpetually progressive but also holistic and sustainable. Therefore, the time has come to stretch out the ambit of our criminal justice system to give primacy to factors that leads to creation of delinquent mindset itself and to incorporate adolescent education programme within the academic curriculum of school education system as a form of preventive mechanism under the direct supervision of the state machinery towards achieving the larger vision of state welfare and social justice.
Keywords: Adolescence, Adolescence Education, Quality Education, Criminal Justice System, Social Justice, School Education System
