WHat are we going to do with juvenile delinquents?

Our law (RA 9344) states that minors 15yrs old and below are exempt from criminal responsibility but that they should be subjected to an intervention program. In theory, I think this is good but what intervention programs are they talking about? Is the department of social services equipped enough for this kind of system? Before, minor offenders were put in a center or "prison" for minors where they undergo rehabilitation programs. Now, the police don't care to apprehend them anymore because they will just be off the hook anyway.

I'm going to be very frank, I think parents need to get off their butts and parent! My kids are still young, but I do have a teenager that I've notice doesn't act like a lot of the kids the same age as him at school. He is respectful and considerate of others, he hangs out with just a handfull of kids that are the same. Same with church friends. My husband and I take an interest in our children, we have family night together where we stay home and talk as a family and on Sunday night we go out as a family and go mini putting or bowling. We know where our kids are and what they are doing, we don't ignore them or tell them to leave us alone and go play. I have seen and heard parents do that and tell that to their kids so many times that it makes me sad for the kids.

Perhaps some kind of a boot camp would do some good, in that the kids would receive toughlove, straighten up, enable them to realize their mistakes and have them take responsibility for their actions by also doing community service. Through doing so, hopefully they'd turn their lives around and become law abiding citizens.

Im not sure where you live. I live in Florida the United States and here we have juvennile detention center where kids like that stay for a very long time. They can even be submitted to a prison cell for killing people. A 17 year old here where i live in Florida just killed his parents about two months back and his trial went through and now he is submitted to two life sentences of murder and he was not an adult but got those sentences because he killed people. I believe your juvenile center need to step it up where you live or they need to have them sent somewhere else that has a place for kids or teens.

This kind of law for minors is the reason why our vice-mayor is so angry about...minors have become abusive and they on the other side becomes the victim...human lawyers are caught in between, to protect the welfare of the child and to protect the victims of the crimes committed by these minors...disciplinary action is what our vice-mayor is doing, talking to these minors like a father to a child and as well as talking to their parents or guardians and giving them a talk and livelihood projects most specially for mothers for them to have more time to watch over their kids cause one of the reasons why these minors does these things is because of poverty...no money, no education and no education means more time on the street where most of these crimes is happening...

Yeah, I have noticed that to and the people can't really detain them for more than a few days since there is a law protecting them. Maybe they should change this law so they could be punished too since now they are abusing it... They should just be put in separate jails or made to do community service.

It is our job as parents and concern citizens to help the younger generation to avoid falling into the wrong crowd. Here in the Philippines the family is closely knitted and the parents are mostly concern about guiding their children to be better citizens except in some cases when the parents are too poor and have plenty of children that with all the tasks that they need to do they cannot give the attention that most younger people are craving for.

I used to follow up with young delinquents (I was a volunteer.) and to my surprise, they were not as bad as one might think. Usually, delinquents come from broken families where they might hv been neglected or abused. So, it's actually understandable why they turn out to be delinquents. I think the best way to help them is by genuinely loving them and showing them that we adults care abt them. But of course, it wld not help if only a few adults do that. The families of the delinquents need to do their part. Society as a whole has to play its part too. Putting delinquents in a correctional institution might not be gd for them. In my country, a lot of the delinquents who are ordered to be placed in such institutions become more defiant and they end up in prison. So, it's a waste of the country's resources, incl. monetary resources. That's why I am against putting delinquents in any correctional institution.

Juvenile delinquency isn't really the problem here, because in fact it is just an effect, so it would only mean one thing... It also has a cause.. Even before, it has been an enormous question that they have been looking for an answer up until now. But it would come out as zero resolution. Notwithstanding it could only be reduced instead, avoided and finally be cured. Let's start where they came from. Their homes.Their parents as their guide and in absence of these, that's where the problem starts. Parental negligence is one root cause. Government is just secondary contributor triggered by poverty and environment. And it would be a nightmare that is still creeping up to present days...

There's just no way to fix this problem. Personally I think it's because what works for one juvenile delinquent isn't always the same as what works for another

This is an extremely important topic and one I am personally interested in. There is no easy solution in dealing with crime, especially with delinquencies. There is no question that our juvenile court could use some renovations, however I feel they are getting the job done as best they can. If you are implying that we ought to subject children to equivalent charges as their adult counterparts, then i would disagree because it is important for society to allow the young to learn from their mistakes and "bounce back" from them in order to become model citizens.