AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON RIGHTS AND DEFENSES PROVIDED TO MINOR SERIOUS

OFFENDERS UNDER JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO

AUTHOR:R.AAKASH INDIA CO-AUTHOR:Ms. PRIYANKA.P AND Dr. C. JAYAMALA

INTRODUCTION
The juvenile justice system is designed to handle cases involving minors who have committed crimes. In most countries, the juvenile justice system provides a separate
legal framework for dealing with minors who have committed offenses, with the aim of rehabilitating and reintegrating them into society. Here are some of the rights
and defenses that are provided to minor serious offenders under the juvenile justice system. Right to counsel: Just like adult defendants, minor serious offenders have
the right to legal representation. If they cannot afford an attorney, the court will appoint one for them.
OBJECTIVES METHODOLOGY
➢The research method followed is empirical.
➢To analyse the awareness about rights and defences provided ➢The data is collected through a questionnaire and the sample size is
under juvenile justice Act 202.
➢To find effective measures to tackle the negative effects of ➢The sample frame is in and around Chennai(Tamil Nadu)
juvenile justice system ➢The convenience sampling method is adopted in the study to collect
the data.
➢ The samples were collected from Friends, relations through google
form
➢The tools used to analyse are SPSS, graphs chi square and anova
table.

RESULT

Most of the people of 21 to 40 years have more awareness

towards the juvenile justice system in India and nearly
people above the years of 41 to 60 years are of less
compared with the above said respondent. The people of
the same age had said that deciding based on the intention
rather than the age and like most of the respondents have
said that all of the above may be the ways to improve
current juvenile justice system based on the age of such
respondents.

DISCUSSION

Here it is clearly infered that the majority of people from

various age groups and educational qualification have high
awareness this can be considered to be the result of
awareness programs and movies. From here it is infered
that there is need for tvarious changes in the juvenile
justice system as the intentions, actions, capacity have all
increased due to the change in the environment they grow
in, hence various suggestions varying from trying juvenile
offender based on their mental capacity to them being
tried as adults. There exists a huge and ever growing scope
for this until the existence of mankind ceases to exist as it
is nature of children to commit mistakes.

CONCLUSION
From this and the above Analysis we may conclude that there are various rights that have been provided to juvenile offenders. But there are certain checks and
balances like in various instances juvenile offenders have been punished as adults considering the depth of the offence and intellect used to commit the offence hence we
can see that proper measures have been taken to protect those to be protected and punish those to be punished. But there are certain checks and balances like in
various instances juvenile offenders have been punished as adults considering the depth of the offence and intellect used to commit the offence hence we can see that
proper measures have been taken to protect those to be protected and punish those to be punished.