Judicial protection for juvenile delinquents in Algerian legislation Study in light of the provisions of Law No 12-15

Abstract

A juvenile delinquent is a child who commits a criminal act and is at least ten years old. However, the perverse juvenile is considered in the view of criminal jurisprudence a victim of personal and environmental factors that affected his behavior, which pushed him towards deviation without being able to resist it due to his intellectual and psychological immaturity. Therefore, the trial of juvenile delinquents had to differ in its content and form from the trial of adults, and this is what made the judiciary Juveniles achieve two goals: a preventive goal whose purpose is to take measures that prevent the occurrence of the juvenile in the shafts of delinquency, and a therapeutic goal whose aim is to consider the cases brought against the delinquent juvenile, decide on them, and take remedial measures.