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    This document discusses offences against children and juvenile offences under Indian law. It provides definitions of a child and juvenile according to various Indian acts, which define a child as anyone under ages 14 to 18, and a juvenile as anyone under 18. The document discusses international conventions to protect children's rights, such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also lists factors that can contribute to criminal offenses against children, such as poverty, lack of education, child labor, and child marriage.

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    This document discusses offences against children and juvenile offences under Indian law. It provides definitions of a child and juvenile according to various Indian acts, which define a child as anyone under ages 14 to 18, and a juvenile as anyone under 18. The document discusses international conventions to protect children's rights, such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also lists factors that can contribute to criminal offenses against children, such as poverty, lack of education, child labor, and child marriage.

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    This document discusses offences against children and juvenile offences under Indian law. It provides definitions of a child and juvenile according to various Indian acts, which define a child as anyone under ages 14 to 18, and a juvenile as anyone under 18. The document discusses international conventions to protect children's rights, such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also lists factors that can contribute to criminal offenses against children, such as poverty, lack of education, child labor, and child marriage.

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    Introduction:-

    The subject-“Offences Against Child & Juvenile Offences” is comprised of five units providing
    details of causes of offence againsed child, various international conventions to protect the
    child, offences against the child under various Laws such as- labour, criminal, matters involving
    child in social relations (like child marriage , custody of child during matrimonial suits and
    obligations of the parents towards their children’s) , protection of child and juvenile under the
    provisions of various Laws(such as constitution, I.P.C. , Cr.pc., contract) ,Juvenile Delinquency,
    rehabilitation, Juvenile court system etc. Child:- In common saying or in ordinary sense “Child”
    means a person who is unable to maintain itself. According to the provisions of various Acts
    dealing child exclusively one can come to know that it is the age of the child which determines
    as to who is child. In another words child may be determined according to his/her age subject to
    a particular Act to which he is subjected. In India various Acts describe various age of the child
    and they are as follows:- According to section 2(b) of the Beedi & Cigar workers (condition of
    Employment) Act, 1966- Child means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of
    age. According to section 2(ii) of the Child Labour (prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986- Child
    means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age.

    According to section 3(a) of the Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983- Child means a
    person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age According to section 2(bb) of the
    Minimum Wages Act, 1948- Child means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of
    age According to section2(2) of the M.P. shops and Establishment Act, 1958- Child means a
    person who is below fourteen year of age According to section 2(c) of the Factories Act, 1948-
    Child means a person who has not completed his fifteen year of age According to section 2 of
    the Children (pledging of Labour) Act, 1933- Child means person who is under the age of fifteen
    years. According to section 2 (aa) of the Immoral Traffic (pledging of Labour) Act, 1933- Child
    means a person who is under the age of fifteen years.

    According to section 2(b) of the protection of woman from Domestic Violence Act, 2005-Child
    means any person below the age of eighteen years and includes any adopted, step or foster
    child. According to section 2 (k) of the Juvenile Justice (care and protection of children) Act,
    2000- Juvenile or Child means a person, who has not completed eighteenth year of age .
    According to section 2(a) of the prohibition of child marriage Act, 2006- Child means a person
    who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed
    eighteen years of age. Concept of

    ►In Juvenile Justice (care and protection of children) Act, 2000 there is no distinction provided
    between Juvenile and child. ►The term Juvenile is derived from a Latin word “Juvenis” meaning
    young. ►The term Juvenile is defined by each member state of the United Nations in a manner
    which is compatible with its legal system and social welfare objectives. Introduction:- Justice
    V.R. Krishna Iyer said: “The hallmark of culture and advance of civilization consists in the
    fulfillment of our obligation to the young generation by opening up all opportunities for every
    child to unfold its personality and rise to its full stature- physical, mental and spiritual. It is the
    birth right of every child to demand justice from the whole world. In a civilized society, the
    importance of child welfare cannot be underestimated because the welfare of the entire
    community, its growth and development, depends on the health and well-being of its children.
    Children are a “supremely important national asset” and the future well-being of the nation
    depends on how its children grow and develop. Jawaharlal Nehru has said about children that:
    “Today’s child is tomorrow’s future’.Some factors which are known to affect the volume and type
    of crime occurring from place to place are as follows:- Population density and decree of
    urbanization (particularly the concentration of youth) Stability of population with resident’s
    mobility, community patterns and transient factors. Economic condition (medium, below poverty
    line and job availability) Cultural factors and educational, recreational and religious
    characteristics. Family conditions with respect to divorce and family cohesiveness. Effective
    strength of law enforcement agencies. Chronic hunger, lack of education, over work and forced
    labour. Child pornography, prostitution, trafficking, labour and child marriage. Causes of offence
    against Child Class –LL.B (HONS.) II SEM. Subject – Juvenile Justice 3 Children’s are exploited
    to a large extent in work, humiliated in society and faces several discriminations. Looking to this
    there was a need globally for making declaration for the benefit and the rights of the children to
    provide them security to fight againsed all these evils of child abuse. So various declarations
    have been given internationally which are as follows:- Declaration of the Rights of the Child,
    1959 ( The General assembly of the United Nations adopted this declaration on 20th November,
    1959) The world summit for Children, 1990. Declaration of Geneva 1924. General Conference
    of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, 29th October, 1919. Worst Forms or
    Child Labour convention, 1999. UN CRC (United Nations convention on the rights of the Child)
    in 1992. The International Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

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