A Qualitative Study on the Judicial Social Services for Juvenile Delinquents

Abstract

Juvenile delinquents have become one of the groups that gained much attention from society currently. The present situation and the changes attached to this group have become a significant social topic as well. Through the advance and improvement of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China for the group of juvenile delinquents, the Department of Juvenile in many areas has applied the idea of "less arrestment and less litigation†to juvenile delinquents in the procuratorate system as a result of making more effort to provide the future development of juvenile delinquents. And based on this idea, more needs of judicial social services emerged in doing social inquiry reports and following-up monitoring to juvenile delinquents from government departments. This passage is based on the interview with the manager of Department of Juvenile of People's Procuratorate of Enshi City Hubei Province and one of the social workers in Siyecao Social Work Agency in Jingzhou City Hubei Province, and the analysis for the current situation of the judicial social services. And the corresponding suggestions offered in the passage are partially drawing on the experiences of previous studies and cases from other districts.