Impact of Literacy on Juvenile Delinquency in India (with special reference to the sexual offences)

Abstract

Children are the future of the country. Juvenile delinquency is the hurdle to the development of the juvenile and its effects are bad on the development of the country. Sexual offenses are social evil that badly affects to the juvenile as well as the victim woman. Juvenile criminality has been increased year by year in India particularly in juvenile sexual offenses. Even though to emphasis the literacy, there is Constitutional provision under Directive Principle of the State Policy as well as Fundamental Rights as provided under Part III & IV of the Constitution of India but there is an implemental gap. In furtherance, to give effect to rise up the literacy, the Union Government and States Government are trying to implement several policies. There are several reasons behind juvenile delinquency like- social, economic, political, psychological, and biological reasons but literacy is directly impacting on juvenile delinquency.  If we want to build a strong India then we have to make mentally strong children. The objective of the present study is to analyse the effect of literacy of the States and UTs on its juvenile delinquency. The effect of policies as initiated by the Union and State Government with respect to juvenile delinquency has also been elaborated categorically in manner. The present study is based on doctrinal and empirical methods. For doctrinal, data has been collected from the textbooks, research papers, journals, articles, and websites, and for imperial study, data has been adopted from official sites. For conclusive analysis, the statistical formulae have been applied.