Children in Conflict with the Law: A case study of the Juvenile Justice Institutions in Makindye West Division, Kampala District.
| dc.contributor.author | Kirabira, Justine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-23T08:50:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-07-23T08:50:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-08 | |
| dc.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. | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/10584 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kampala International University, School of law. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Children | en_US |
| dc.subject | Juvenile Justice Institutions | en_US |
| dc.subject | Conflict | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kampala District | en_US |
| dc.title | Children in Conflict with the Law: A case study of the Juvenile Justice Institutions in Makindye West Division, Kampala District. | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |