Juvenile Crime In Malaysia

Recently the nation was shocked with the statistics released by the malaysia ministry of home affairs moha which registered an increase number of 5 305 juvenile delinquency cases where it went up from 3 399 cases in 2012 to 8 704 cases in 2013 please refer to table 1 below.

Juvenile crime in malaysia. The average of 488 cases per month and 16 cases per day. Crime index ratio per 100 000 population for malaysia in 2017 improved to 309 7 as against 2016. The statistics of the prison department of m alaysia show that of the 2 964 juveniles who. The domestic laws such as child act 2001 and child act 2002 by following the regulations of crc have been making sure that none of the children who have committed crime will get punished similar to adults.

Are serving prison sentences. 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. 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. 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.

When an offence is committed by a child but a charge in respect of that offence is made against the child after he has attained the age of eighteen years the charge shall be heard by a court other than a court for children. Here court for children does not apply even if the crime was committed when the child was below 18 years old. This is expressly stated in section section 83 3 of the child act 2001. In malaysia statistics recorded that there were 29 337 juveniles who were arrested for committing offences through the years 2002 until 2006 i e.

One of the major laws malaysian child act 2001 has helped the juvenile justice system of malaysia to reduce the number of delinquency cases in the country. 1 231 41 6 are malays. 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.