The establishment of the Juvenile Court Act of 1899 was a major movement in the juvenile justice system. How juveniles were punished for crimes in which they committed was a lot different than the punishment handed down to adult offenders. In Uganda, in the pre-colonial era, juveniles who committed crimes were punished by elders as a norm and children belonged to the community. However, prior to the colonial times there were no specific provisions for juvenile crimes and rehabilitation. One of the goals of juvenile justice is to divert youthful offenders from the destructive punishments of criminal courts and encouraging rehabilitation based on the individual juveniles needs. The significance of this research is to spread awareness of the effects and dangers of failure to implement given laws as this might lead to increase in crime. This research therefore offers the opportunity to describe and explain the different delinquent behavior providing systematic and logical arguments that specifies how to implement different laws

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