juvenile-justice

Midhila Jayan, National Law School of India University ABSTRACT Neuroscience, as a field, by analysing the structure and function of the brain, provides insight that changes the approach to juvenile justice in India. Currently, fixed age thresholds are used in India to assess the responsibility of adolescents involved in cases of a criminal nature. These fixed measures of assessing maturity based…

Abdul Hannaan Siddiqui, Presidency University Bengaluru Shivansh Singh Chauhan, Presidency University Bengaluru ABSTRACT All around the globe, lawmakers, jurists and child‐rights advocates have agreed on a simple, yet profound, insight: a child is not simply a smaller version of an adult. The emotions that swirl inside a teenager, the way a developing brain processes information, and the still‐fo…

Yabom Piya, LLM, School of Law, Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies, VISTAS, Pallavaram, Chennai – 600117 Dr. Aswathi Sukumaran, Assistant Professor, School of Law, Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies, VISTAS, Pallavaram, Chennai – 600117 ABSTRACT Child protection continues to be among the most important concerns in relation to the law and society…

Introduction At the beginning of 2015, the Italian Constitutional Court got the opportunity to reaffirm some of the core principles of the juvenile criminal justice system that have been established under international legal instruments. With judgment n. 1/2015 the Constitutional Court declared two legal provisions unconstitutional: Article 458 of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure […]