The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 - Critical Analyses

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Description
This book critically examines the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 primarily from the perspective of child rights. It incorporates the latest amendments in the legal provisions and judicial interpretations of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 made by the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2021.
All provisions of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 have been critically analysed keeping in view the objectives of the Act to cater to the basic needs of children through proper care, protection, development, treatment, social integration by adopting a child-friendly approach in the adjudication and disposal of matters in the best interest of children, and for their rehabilitation through processes provided and institutions and bodies established under the Act.
Key Features
• Focuses on identifying the direction of changes in the law - whether by legal provision or by judicial pronouncement, from the perspective of best interest of children
• Highlights the new issues triggered by the Amendment Act, 2021
• Provides detailed explanation of the issue relating to lacunae in definition of serious and heinous offences that have been decided by the courts on the same lines as suggested in first edition
• Includes a separate chapter on adoption, which examines and analyses the reasons for changes introduced in procedure and processes surrounding adoption
• Examines the discussions relating to adoption by an individual or a couple in same sex relationship or with different gender identity and the judgment of the Supreme Court on the subject
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Contents
Chapter 1:    General Introduction
Chapter 2:    Introduction to the Juvenile Justice Act 2015   
Chapter 3:    Caring for Children in Conflict with Law
Chapter 4:    Caring for Children in Need of Care and Protection
Chapter 5:    Residential Care
Chapter 6:    Offences Against Children
Chapter 7:    Miscellaneous Provisions
Subject Index   
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Author Details
Ved Kumari is Professor of Law in the University of Delhi. Her first book Treatise on the Juvenile Justice Act 1986 (1993) by the Indian Law Institute was a pioneering publication in India on the subject in the field of law. Her doctoral work published as Juvenile Justice System in India from Welfare to Rights (2004) by Oxford University Press was revised in 2010 and reprinted in 2011. She is nationally and internationally renowned as an expert on juvenile justice in India and her research papers have been published at the national and international level. Presently she is the Dean and Head, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.