Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad's Panel Discussion on Juvenile Justice in India and Juvenile Rehabilitation

About the Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad

SLS Hyderabad is founded on the pillars of expertise, justice, and shares expertise in imparting quality legal education. It is committed to contributing to the justice mission of the state by initiating pro-bono activities to help poor and marginalized people through community lawyering, legal aid camps, and permanent legal aid clinics.

Further, it endeavors to create value-conscious skilled lawyers with par excellence, serving the dynamic needs of the community through Bar and Bench.

About the opportunity

SLS Hyderabad is organizing a panel discussion on “Juvenile Justice in India and Juvenile Rehabilitation: Socio-Legal Implications for Children” on February 12, 2022.

About the Legal Aid Centre

The Legal Aid Centre at Symbiosis Law School Hyderabad was constituted on 28th February 2015, with an aim to provide free legal aid services and create legal awareness among the masses in the nearby vicinity, and to organize awareness drives, training programs, legal aid camps, and undertake research studies for the propagation of legal knowledge and to make the legal process a resourceful instrument of social development.

The Centre strives to impart socio-legal services to the needy and under-privileged people of the society. It actively works to amplify the consciousness among the public and empower neighbourhoods to claim their rights.

The Legal Aid Centre conducts Avagahana as a vital component of its work to make the people aware of certain significant issues and bring it to their conscience, hence making them vigilant about the same. As a part of Avagahana’22, the Legal Aid Centre is organizing a panel discussion on the theme “Juvenile Justice in India and Juvenile Rehabilitation: Socio-Legal Implication for Children”.

About the Panel Discussion

The juvenile justice system around the world has always been intrinsically socio-legal because it was understood that the circumstances that contribute to juvenile offences must be addressed while the child is in the juvenile justice system, and this must be done within the broad scope of the law. With regard to the overall development of children, the Juvenile Justice System is the most progressive and enlightened system adopted by the world populace.

The main objective is to reform deviants and give care for children who are not safeguarded. As far as practicable, a child should be rehabilitated and restored to the family. Poverty, lack of resources for good education, mental health concerns, addiction, and peer pressure are all well-known factors that can make children vulnerable thereby, resulting in criminal behavior. Juvenile offenders, therefore, require a different approach than adult offenders.

The primary objective of the socio-legal approach is to not only provide attention and care to children, but also to keep them from committing crimes in the future. The socio-legal approach is essential because it recognizes that while children must accept responsibility for their actions, they also require opportunities to direct their lives in socially constructive ways. Along with facing criminal consequences under juvenile justice law, the child will also require education/vocational skills, drug and alcohol treatment, and family work.

The panel discussion shall enlighten the audience regarding the same and help build an awareness around the Juvenile Justice System in India.