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Crimes Against Children In India: An Overview

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  • Golden Research Thoughts

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  • 2013

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Abstract (Original Language): 
Generally, the offences committed against children or the crimes in which children are the victims are considered as Crime against Children. Indian penal code and the various protective and preventive `Special and Local Laws' specifically mention the offences wherein children are victims. The age of child varies as per the definition given in the concerned Acts and Sections but age of child has been defined to be below 18 years as per Juvenile Justice (Protection and Care of Children) Act, 2000. Paper analysis number crimes against children, programmes and policies and constitutional provisions for children.
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References: 

i.Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and
Children, 1921 (Amended by the 1947 protocol).
ii.Crime in India, 2004, NCRB, Ministry of Home Affairs,
Government of India
iii.Mayall, B., 2002, Towards a Sociology of Childhood:
Thinking from Children's Lives, Bucks.: Open University
Press
iv.Ministry of Welfare, Department of Women and Child
Development. 1991. 15 Years of ICDS, an Overview. New
Delhi: Government of India.

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