Model of Child Prisoners Counseling (A Comparative Study in Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia)

Abstract

Correctional is an estuary of criminal justice system authorized and given the duty by the state to conduct counseling and providing protection primarily for child prisoners, sometimes the counseling given to child prisoners is not in accordance with the portions and rules properly and this is sometimes considered as trivial by the officer therefore the results of counseling on child prisoners is not optimal and will trigger possibility of an act repeatedly practiced thereby the child will eventually return to correctional for the second time. Counseling for child offenders who repeatedly receives criminal sentencing by judges (recidivists) should be differentiated in both counseling and the placement within the correctional.

Keywords: Counseling, Prisoners, Children Against The Law.