Juvenile Crimes & Juvenile Justice in Bangladesh: Time for Re-thinking

Abstract

Juveniles in Bangladesh who commit crimes and run out without any control in our society are desperately in need of control. Nothing we have ever done in the past has ever properly worked to solve the juvenile crime problem. Juvenile crime and the teen gang problem is what we call a social construction. It's been created, manipulated, and exaggerated by the politicians and governments, media, and some academics. Now it's become a self-fulfilling prophecy created into existence by the methods that we have used to understand it and the methods that we have used to tackle it and most likely to serve the interest of the politicians and governments, media, or some academics. And many kinds of ambiguity have begun to emerge from the current laws that regulate youth crime. This study is about creating youth criminals and gangs and how the justice system is dealing with the problem. Also, finding out the ambiguity in the domestic law and problems that our Judiciary has to face while punishing a juvenile offender. Lastly, some suggestions and suitable solutions are added to erase the ambiguity from the judicial proceedings. Several academics, given their thoughts and studies, have been made on the youth crime problem, yet there is a lot to share and improve. This research has the vision to find out improvements, suggestions, and solutions to the strict laws.