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The word delinquent can be found in the Shakespearean famous play ‘ Macbeth’ in 1605. In 1484, William Coxson used the term “Delinquent” to describe those persons who found guilty for customary offence. Romans also use the term to refer to that person who fails to perform their task or duty. The term ‘Delinquency’ is derived from a Latin word ‘Delinquer’ means ‘to omit’. It is common for each individual State’s Statute to consider a person as a Juvenile or minor who is under the age of 18 years, but, however, the Judicial System can consider Juvenile as an adult in serious offences. When a juvenile violates a statute the procedure to be followed is different as compared to the procedure of the adult offenders. Juvenile Delinquency occurs when there is a violation of a Statute by a juvenile. It is to be noted that, each individual State has its own separate legal system to deal with the problem of Juvenile Delinquency.

The idea behind this is to make a distinction between the punishments prescribed for the children and punishments prescribed for the adults. The term Juvenile Delinquency was coined with the idea for treatment of Juvenile Offenders rather to describe their behaviour. Simply, it can be said, participation by a minor between the age of 10 to 18 years, in an illegal activity is a Juvenile Delinquency. As per the FBI the juvenile is one who is below the age of majority i.e., 18 or as per the statutory age of majority an individual State defines.

The concept of Juvenile Delinquency is a new one, but the behaviour of the younger’s to which it refers is not new it is an age old. In this paper we’ll also study or examine that how the different nations were resolving this problem, by doing different efforts. In the present paper an attempt is made to know about the problems of Juvenile. To deal with the problem of Juvenile Delinquency not only at National but also at International Level many attempts were done to control the problem such as: rehabilitation programme and treatments etc. Many of the youth are never gone through the Juvenile Justice System, but it does not lower the value or importance of the problem of Juvenile Delinquency. According to an estimate maximum number of the youth is either once or many times engaged in the Juvenile Delinquency behaviour. The problem of Juvenile Delinquency is not a new one it is an age old problem, it involves millions of youth. Juvenile Delinquency or commonly known as “Juvenile Offending”, an unlawful act by a minor (minor is a person who has not attained the statutory age of majority).

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