TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Pre-Trial Detention of Child Offenders: Some Evidence from Malaysia
AU - Ahmad, Nadzriah AU - Hamid, Abdul Ghafur AU - Wok, Saodah 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 30
SP  - 7210
EP  - 7214
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.7210.7214
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.7210.7214
KW  - Pre-trial detention
KW  -Juvenile justice system
KW  -child offenders
KW  -CRC 1989
KW  -Malaysia
AB  - Many child offenders are deprived of their liberty at the pre-trial process for a long period of time.
Lengthy detention at this stage is detrimental to the well-being of child offenders because of the trauma they
experience while being detained. However, the effectiveness of the current system in preventing child offenders
from being detained at the pre-trial process in Malaysia remains an open question because of the high numbers
of child offenders being detained at the pre-trial process. The objectives of this study are to examine such
issues by highlighting the inadequacies of the laws governing the pre-trial detention and to analyse whether
the current laws are meeting the requirements of international standards. A mixed quantitative and qualitative
approach has been adopted to identify the views of 432 child offenders who participated in the study and the
opinions from the stakeholders respectively. The findings revealed that there is a compelling need to reform
the current laws governing the pre-trial detention in order to reduce the number of child offenders being
deprived of their liberty at the pre-trial process.
ER  -