Court For Children

In the tutorial class, our lecturer discussed a case study with us. This case is related with court for children.

Children should get punishment if they are commit crime?

What are their right if they become a criminal?

What is Court for children and what is the act to protect them?

The Court for Children or Juvenile Court is specified in cases for children that are governed by Child Act 2001. Section 2 of the Act states that child can be defined as any person below the age of 18 years, and for the purposes of criminal proceedings, means a person who has attained the age of 10 years.

The Child Act 2001 is served to consolidate the Juvenile Courts Act 1947, the Women and Young Girls Protection Act 1973, and the Child Protection Act 1991. This is to enact partially in order to fulfill Malaysia’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child.

We have to protect those children because children are pillar of a country. We need to have a correct method to induce the children so that they will have a correct living concept. Therefore, the law cannot treat the children as adult and give them second chance.

Unfortunately, the children are more over in their behaviour. Some of them were committed a serious sin which is murder. If we too protect them by law, they will despise the law. But, the punishment applied on the children is too heavy, the children’ mental growth will grow in incomplete. May be, they will revenge to the society by their offence such as vandalism, continuous crime and the like. This attitude may disorder our society.

There are a lot of reasons to explain why the children become a criminal such as stress, learn from the movie and so on. But this cannot be the excuses for them to be a criminal. I hope that those children can be mature and do not so those behaviour. This is because their behaviour may hurt themselves and their parent.

Prepared by,
Fong Yok Yan (1071120015)