Children and Crime in India
Children and Crime in India

Author: Saju Parackal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3030165892

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This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system. It draws on in-depth, qualitative research carried out by an NGO which included unstructured and structured interviews with over 600 children as well as stakeholders. Through the stories of Indian children, this book examines the major factors which together play a crucial role in their engagement in deviant behaviour as they grow up. However, the authors argue that they should not be viewed not as a dangerous threat but as the country’s most valuable resource. The authors conclude that a punitive strategy may not be the best option, advocating instead for a focus on restorative justice which has been found to be effective and beneficial alongside other strategies which help strengthen families and enhance parenting skills.

Children of Kali
Children of Kali

Author: Kevin Rushby

Publisher: Constable

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781841195681

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They murdered more than a million travellers without spilling a drop of blood. They were inspired by religious fanaticism, yet came from many faiths. Their weapon was the handkerchief, their sacrament sugar, and their goddess Kali. They were the thugs.

Crime and Justice in India
Crime and Justice in India

Author: N. Prabha Unnithan

Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2013-03-20

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9789353880996

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Criminology and criminal justice is in its infancy in India. This book attempts to examine India's crime problem in detail and document if and how its criminal justice system has responded to emerging challenges and opportunities. The objective is to move beyond mere observations and thoughtful opinions, and make contributions that are the next steps in the development of an empirical (or evidence-based) criminology and criminal justice on this vast and diverse country-by focusing on research that is both balanced and precise. This book brings together a diverse set of 32 academics from India, the US, and the UK who have authored 19 chapters on many aspects of crime and justice in India. The organizational components or sectors of the criminal justice system are the police, the courts, and corrections. The studies collected here provide balanced coverage of the entire criminal justice system and not just one component of it. The first section of this book consists of overviews of several major issues that affect the entire criminal justice system. Section Two considers topics related to the gateway of the criminal justice system, policing. Section Three takes up the operational problems of criminal law and courts and Section Four deals with the difficult question of punishment and correction, the last part of the criminal justice system.

Children and Violence
Children and Violence

Author: Bina D'Costa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1107117240

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Explores the conceptualisation of childhood in South Asia and comments on the shift from welfare to the protection of children's rights in the region.

Child Rights in India
Child Rights in India

Author: Geeta Chopra

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 8132224469

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The book is a comprehensive compendium on child rights in India from a child development perspective. It discusses the challenges that Indian children face for survival, development and education, especially if they are marginalized through disability, lack of care, and poverty. The major issues expounded by the author in relation to rights are infant and child survival, early child development, street and working children, children in conflict with law, children with disabilities, child trafficking and child sexual abuse. The author goes further to delve into the causes, among which are high population, poverty, migration, illiteracy, poor legislation and deep-rooted social norms and behaviour. The book presents the existing policy and legal framework in India for each of these issues. The broad purpose of the book is to comprehensively discuss the roadblocks that the marginalized child in India faces, to understand the causes of these roadblocks and to evaluate government and civil society action for children in India.

Crime against Children
Crime against Children

Author: Prof. Sarita Vashistha

Publisher: K.K. Publications

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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Table of Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 General Aspects • A Horror Untold • Laws on Child Sexual Abuse in India • Sexual Abuse • Power Harassment • Rankism • Child-on-child Sexual Abuse • Child Neglect Child Labour 21 The Backdrop • Child Labour Areas • International Programme on Child Labour • Child Labour Amendment • Child Labour in India • Child Labour in the Diamond Industry • Reports • Initiatives against Child Labour • Child Slavery Child Trafficking 45 The Prevalence • Child-Sex-Tourism • Background • Global Response • New Phenomenon in Goa • Inflow of Tourists Child Prostitution 59 Definitions • Terminology • Causes and Contexts • Prohibition • Extent • Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children • Forms of Sexual Exploitation • Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act • Child Sexuality Child Pornography 79 Terminology • Relation to Child Molestation and Abuse • Typology • Organised Crimes • Relationship with Sexual Abuse • Copine Scale Child Marriage 99 Child Marriage by Religion • Child Marriage by Region and Country School Violence 109 International Character • Risk Factors • Corporal Punishment • Rituals and Punishment • Paraphilia and Fetishism Exploitation of Children by Military 127 War Crimes • International Laws • International Humanitarian Law • International Labour Law Juvenile Delinquency 149 Juvenile Sex Crimes • Risk Factors • Societal Consequences Street Children 161 Definitions • Numbers and Distribution • Countrywise Position • Stolen Generations • Child Removal Policy • Policy in Practice • Child Abandonment Society and Children 191 Child Support • Legal Theory • Child Support Industry Children’s Rights 207 Definitions • Types of Rights • International Law • Convention on the Rights of the Child • Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action • Enforcement • Convention on the Rights of the Child • Children’s Rights Movement Social Laws and Children 219 Best Interests of the Child • Child Benefits • Child Imprisonment Legal Protection 231 Legal Provisions • Patronage by Courts Case Studies 269 Nithari Serial Murders • School Shooting • Kelsey Smith-Briggs • Beslan School Hostage Crisis • Other Incidents and Controversies • Holy Cross Dispute Bibliography 341 Index 349