Muskaan Shafi, LLM Scholar, School of Law, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal Srinagar ABSTRACT The way a society treats its children when they break the law shows how civilized and forward-thinking it is. For a very long time, the criminal justice system treated everyone the same, whether they were an adult or a child. If a child committed a crime, they were thrown into the same dark Prisons as hardened criminals. However, over time, thinkers, lawyers, and scientists realized that Children are...