Children in Conflict with the Law: A case study of the Juvenile Justice Institutions in Makindye West Division, Kampala District.
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Date
2013-08
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Kampala International University, School of law.
Abstract
This study aims to explore the characteristics of juvenile justice system in Makindye West
division in Kampala district that is challenges of the juvenile, basic needs, diseases, their
remedies in court that is foster care, custody, guardianship orders, maintenance order among
others.
This study includes, the socio economic back ground, factors behind child deviancy, and
rehabilitative mechanisms and its effectiveness are analyzed using the primary data collected
from a purposively selected sample in Makindye. Study employed qualitative techniques to
describe the details and analyzed through the triangulation of primary data from the respondents,
semi-structured interviews with officials and excerpts from the literature.
The findings of the study are that the juvenile are in conflict with the law due to the violations of
the rights of the children which has called for intervention of the courts to administer justices
with undue regard to technicalities and this resulted into orders like Adoption orders, custody
orders, guardianship order, and maintenance order among others.
Description
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law in Partial
Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of
the Degree of Bachelor's of Laws of
Kampala International
University.
Keywords
Children, Juvenile Justice Institutions, Conflict, Kampala District