Juvenile Right Justice

Concept of Juvenile Justice System, National and International laws related to Juvenile Justice

Background Children are generally referred or understand miner in general term and juvenile is a legal term. Children in conflict with law is strictly a legal term that include two types of children. One is suspected and another is convicted. The human being who is under the age of 18 years and those children violate the criminal law of the country are called the children in conflict with law. Those children are also known as juvenile. In law, the terms "juvenile" and "minor" are usually used in different contexts; (Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000AD of India, Section 2(k).define juvenile as a young person, not fully mature, both mentally and physically.

Juveniles are not classified according to type of offence, but they are also tracked according to the nature of offences committed across years. With experience and through various knowledge, it has been accepted that children are different from adults. Juvenile Justice System is a separate system from Criminal Justice system. It is concerned only with the children in conflict with law. The procedure is mostly informal in juvenile justice system and correction of children. The major goal of juvenile justice system rather than punitive. A child is thought to be incapable of committing crimes. A child is not a criminal. Protection of the best interest of the children in conflict with laws is prime goal in Juvenile Justice. The Juvenile Justice is wide concept. The young person under the age of eighteen commits any illegal activities is known as juvenile. The children is not responsible for his act because he has no mature mind or no foresight ness of the act. So, the punishment is reformative than punitive International Legal provision Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 CRC was ratified by Nepal