Juvenile Terrorism in India

: Perpetrators of terrorist offence often tend to be young children under the age of 18years. They are found engaged in a terrorist activity in different capacity. Terrorist groups often involve such children directly into terrorist act. Available literature has shown that children are more vulnerable than adults in the violent terrorist act owing to the lack of maturity and judgmental capacity. They are also found to have low level of guilt due to under arousal of autonomic nervous system activity.