Name - Tanya Ranjan Symbiosis Law School , Noida Children in Conflict with the Law Millions of kids are detained in jails, prisons, and detention facilities around the globe. Many are subjected to trail and sentenced in methods that violate their human rights as well as international norms that acknowledge that depriving children of their liberty should be a last resort. Children are executed for crimes in some nations, where the value of a child's life is disregarded by the legal system. The justifications for locking up children who have broken the law differ not merely from country to country but also from jurisdiction to jurisdiction inside a country. The emergence of delinquent behavior in youngsters is influenced by a variety of societal influences. Children who are left behind, stray and street children, and children who live in poverty are most at risk. Other particular risk factors include parental views that support law-breaking behavior, child abuse, family dissolution, low neighborhood attachment, academic failure, truancy, school dropout, and earlylife antisocial behavior. Evidence of Bias The majority of the time, locking up juvenile criminals causes more harm than good. It frequently leads to severe psychological trauma and declining emotional and physical health in the incarcerated adolescents, making it even harder and less likely for them to successfully reintegrate back into society. Without effective counseling and rehabilitation services, children in legal trouble frequently struggle to reintegrate into society and have high rates of re-offending into the criminal justice system.. Children kept in custody frequently experience significant physical and sexual abuse at the hands of guards and other inmates. For instance, juvenile captives in Pakistani prisons are frequently beaten, hanged upside down, or whipped in addition to other forms of torture. Violence is a problem that affects all of humanity, not just those in underdeveloped nations. In the United States, abuses against children who are jailed with adults are common. Inadequate food, access to basic sanitary services, and care for their physical and mental health are regularly denied to children in custody. They are frequently housed in cramped, inadequate facilities where they catch and grow a variety of maladies, including chronic diarrhea, skin conditions, serious dental decay, and other respiratory problems. The brutal detention of children in facilities for adults is a practice that is widespread over the world, despite the fact that various international conventions aim to forbid it. Contrary to the widely held and scientifically established belief that children under the age of 18 do not have fully developed thinking capabilities and so cannot be held to the same social standards as adults, young criminals continue to be treated and convicted as adults. Less money is allocated to delinquency prevention initiatives as well as to child abuse and neglect rehabilitation programs, while at the same time, more youngsters are locked up every year, and new correctional facilities are constructed. Despite the fact that numerous internationally ratified treaties forbid the practice, children are nonetheless sometimes given death sentences and put to death around the world. "Neither the death penalty nor life in prison without the possibility of parole shall be imposed for actions committed by persons under the age of eighteen," declares Article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Additionally, the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states that "crimes committed by people under the age of eighteen must not carry the death penalty.
