| In this high paced and sometimes detached world, | | | | crime. In this case the role of the lawyer is of utmost |
| many children are often neglected by parents and | | | | importance: |
| society and left to fend for themselves. These kids fall | | | | * The lawyer must have a special ability to find his |
| through the cracks of society and feel left out of their | | | | way into the deepest point of the child's heart and |
| peer groups. The unfortunate result is that many often | | | | mind. |
| start running with the wrong group and running afoul of | | | | * Juvenile lawyers are specially trained to bring to light |
| the law. | | | | the background and circumstances that prompted the |
| When a child between the ages of ten and eighteen | | | | child to commit crime. |
| commits a crime, the act is described in legal term as | | | | * In an effort to bring the child out of his shell and to |
| delinquency and the matter is resolved through the | | | | open up, the lawyer can seek the help of doctors and |
| intervention of the juvenile court. | | | | child psychiatrists. This helps the lawyer to gather the |
| Because of the tenderness of the child's age, these | | | | missing links in order to put all the pieces of the puzzles |
| cases are treated and resolved differently. The lawyer | | | | together. |
| also cannot afford to treat these juvenile delinquency | | | | * The juvenile lawyer must be very transparent in his |
| cases like he or she would iany other usual crime case | | | | presentation. He must be extremely logical in recreating |
| involving an adult: | | | | the sequences that led to the crime. |
| * Juvenile delinquency is a delicate matter, yet it is an | | | | It has become a strong concern among leading |
| issue that calls for special knowledge and expertise. | | | | sociologists in the USA about the increasing number of |
| * The juvenile lawyer needs to be empathetic and | | | | child delinquency cases. Generally the delinquent child is |
| understanding towards the child as he or she acts and | | | | exposed to an unusual environment that molds his |
| behaves differently from other children of his age. | | | | mind and behavior in an abnormal and often socially |
| * He should have good working knowledge of child | | | | unacceptable way. So the emotional aspect of the |
| psychology in order to be of any help to the child. | | | | child has to be focused upon in order to understand |
| * When a child commits a crime, it becomes the | | | | the child's motive or trigger for committing the crime. |
| responsibility of the lawyer to get to the root of the | | | | Thus ultimately it rests in the hands of the lawyer to |
| child's problems and to weed out any factors in the | | | | draw the sympathy of the jury in order to acquit the |
| child's environment and relations that had any role, | | | | child or to be more lenient. The end goal of the lawyer |
| direct or indirect, in turning the child into a delinquent. | | | | in these cases of juvenile delinquency is to frame the |
| Sometimes the stress of committing the crime may | | | | case in a manner that the child is not susceptible to |
| numb the child's senses internally and he may often | | | | strong legal actions. |
| withdraw within himself after having committing the | | | | |