Process of Criminalizing Street Children in Bangladesh: an Empirical Study in the city of Dhaka
Sumona Sharmin *
Department of Criminology and Police Science, School of Life Science, Mawlana Bhasani Science and Technology University (MBSTU) at Tangail. Bangladesh.
Afrina Disha
Criminology and Police Science, Mawlana Bhasani Science and Technology University (MBSTU) at Tangail. Bangladesh.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Street children involvement in criminal activities is not new issues but in recent times the rates of the street children’s involvement in crimes is raising continuously in Bangladesh along with other countries of the world. Criminalization of street children is the process by which individual street children are transformed into crime and criminals. The study focuses the process, nature of criminal activities by street children, reasons behind the street children criminalization and impacts of criminalization on children. In this study quantitative method and non probability sampling were used to select the street children from the place because there were no defined numbers of street children those who were involved in various criminal activities. The findings indicate that majority (54.7%) commit crime due to the motivation of other people and 66% commit crime for the situation. The overall purpose of the study was to explore the criminalization process of street children in Bangladesh.
Keywords: Street children, criminalization, marginalization, poverty
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