Sushmita Bharti & Shauryan, Sai Nath University
ABSTRACT
Children are the future of our country and it is the responsibility of everyone to ensure that they have a safe environment around them to live in. A child who has not completed the age of 18 years is a juvenile. But the last decade has seen a huge leap in the rate of juvenile crime in developing countries like India. Today juvenile crime is like a disease in our society. Day by day the juvenile crimes are on an increase moreover children between 5 to7 years are used as a medium to commit crimes. Kids are considered major assets of the country, on which lies the greatest responsibility of the country. Children were born with innocence and if nurtured with tender care and attention, then they grow in a positive way. On the other hand, harmful surroundings, negligence of basic needs, wrong company and other abuses may turn a child to a delinquent. A child is an uncut diamond it depends on society how to shape an uncut diamond. Delinquency is because of broken families, adolescent, instability, labelling, hunger, poverty, lack of recreation, malnutrition and unemployment, gang culture, etc. For delinquent juveniles it is said that prevention is better than cure juvenile should be protected from going to the wrong path.
