Criminal Accountability and Juvenile Offenders: A Study under Islamic Principles, International Law and the Children Act, 2013

Abstract

The perception of offence, judicial method, justice and penalty prescribed in sharia is different from the secular law. The Islamic Criminal law has approved many crimes with providing deterrent, reformative, retaliative and other kinds of penalties in order to uphold peace in the society and reform the criminals. In the Islamic law juvenile shall not be punished with Qisas and Hadd. This paper aims to examine the Islamic principles of justice to juvenile offender which explains by the Quran and Hadith. This study tries to discover the exact position of international law towards juvenile offender. It also investigates the newly enacted legislation in Bangladesh to protect the juvenile offender from inhuman treatment in the judicial proceedings.

Keywords: Juvenile Offender, Criminal Accountability, UNCRC, The Children Act, Qisas