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    Juvenile offenders before the courts: A case of study of juvenile criminal court proceeding in Tanzania with special reference to Kariakoo, Kibaha and Manzese primary Courts
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 1988) Mutembei, Iruganyuma Bazira
    Mass migration of the young from rural areas are producing more and more youth at poverty and starvation levels. Perhaps there are more youth in Tanzania today than at any other time who are shuttled around countryside, without firm family, social and economic roots. It has once been noted in the Sunday news paper that: “More so in developing than in developed countries, youth between 15 and 24 years of age represent a large segment, a third to a half, of the total population. Yet, they are economically deprived and politically marginal to the many decisions made by governments that affect their lives” [Sunday News, July 14th, 1985, p.8]. In the midst of rapid social and technological change, particularly in developing countries like Tanzania, and in the throes of unplanned urbanization, many youth confront conflicting rules of conduct and the fringes of peer group behaviour that may be enticing but that is also viewed legally as deviant. Crime among youth has been increasing rapidly in Tanzania. My concern here is that those youths who commit crime are beginning their delinquent careers earlier today than a generation ago. Ages 13 and 14 are increasingly the ages of the onset of delinquency. The major juvenile justice issue is the fact that children and young persons need to provided with a complementary concern about maintaining their legal rights to face the accused, to be defended professionally and not to suffer from inadequate evidence against them. Thus, this research focuses on juvenile offenders, particularly, those who find themselves before juvenile criminal courts. The emphasis has been put on the development of juvenile criminal justice in Tanzania, the legal philosophy that underlies juvenile criminal justice and the treatment of juvenile offenders