National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has released some important statistics wrt crimes committed by juveniles. Could be useful for essay as well as GS paper 1.
- Juveniles were involved in 1.2%of the total crimes under IPC.
- The crime rate among juveniles is 2.3 for every one lakh juveniles and that is the highest since 2002
- The number of crimes committed by juveniles also rose by 11.2% over 2011 levels.
- The sexual offences in which juvenile boys are involved has been on the rise since 2002.
- The number of boys arrested for rape is also the highest since 2002.
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