TY  - JOUR
T1  - Reoffending among the Child Offenders in Malaysia: It’s Time to
Open Our Doors to Theories Underpinning Diversionary Measures
AU - Hamid, Abdul Ghafur AU - Ahmad, Nadzriah AU - Wok, Saodah 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 30
SP  - 7274
EP  - 7278
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.7274.7278
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.7274.7278
KW  - justice
KW  -Reoffending
KW  -child offenders
KW  -diversion
KW  -diversion theories
KW  -justice
AB  - 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.
ER  -