Abdul Ghafur  Hamid, Nadzriah  Ahmad, Saodah  Wok, 
    Reoffending among the Child Offenders in Malaysia: It’s Time to
Open Our Doors to Theories Underpinning Diversionary Measures,
    The Social Sciences,
    Volume 11,Issue 30,
    2016,
    Pages 7274-7278,
    ISSN 1818-5800,
    sscience.2016.7274.7278,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.7274.7278)
    Abstract: The increasing numbers of child offenders serving sentence in the institutions across Malaysia is
worrying. However, the effectiveness of the current system in reforming and rehabilitating the child offenders
remain an open question because of the rates of reoffending among child offenders. The objectives of this
paper are to examine such issues by highlighting theories underpinning diversionary measures that call for the
departure from the retributive system that is already entrenched in the juvenile justice system in Malaysia. A
mixed quantitative and qualitative approach has been adopted to identify the rates of reoffending among 432
child offenders who participated in the study. The findings revealed that despite undertaking rehabilitative
programmes in the institutions while serving sentence, the rates of child offenders who reoffended are
increasing.
    Keywords: justice;Reoffending;child offenders;diversion;diversion theories;justice