Juvenile Crime In Malaysia

The malaysia ministry of home affairs moha which showed an increase number of juvenile delinquency cases involving children between the age of 8 until 15 years.

Juvenile crime in malaysia. Crime statistics malaysia 2018 is the first publication of the department which presents statistics on five crime areas namely crimes index drugs corruptions environments and other crimes. Nature and extent of juvenile offending malaysia has a fairly young population with 60 percent of its population below 30 years of age. The general perception amongst stakeholders is that child offending has increased in recent years and that the types of crimes that children are committing have become more serious. Juvenile crimes involving school going children has dropped along with the overall crime index which fell by 12 6 per cent but the public was still not feeling safe said dr ahmad zahid.

Crime index ratio per 100 000 population. In malaysia there was an increase in delinquency by 50 24 in 2010 23 642 people compared to 2009 alpatanni 2015. Generally juvenile delinquency involves some form of offending acts by youth. The delinquent acts of a juvenile can be divided into two categories.

Malaysia crimes news find latest news top stories about malaysia crimes. Though malaysia is a country with strong growth rates in economy and stable political environment juvenile delinquency has become a major concern for malaysian government because it will affect the provisions of future generation. Kuala lumpur at least one third of the rape cases reported to the police this year involved juvenile perpetrators and the number has been rising bukit aman statistics showed that 35 per cent. As such this paper will explores in details the issue pertaining to juvenile delinquency in the country by aiming the following objectives namely 1 the extent of the.

Attachment to significant figures resilience and delinquency among. First acts or omissions which are prohibited and punishable by law under the respective legal systems and second acts which are known as status offences 1 in malaysia two forms of status offences.