The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice in Investigations of Cases of Violence by Children at the Cirebon City Police

Abstract

Cases of violence between children often occur, this is because the emotional maturity of children is not yet fully mature so that social pathological problems often occur that make children often commit violence between each other. This makes children often face the law, therefore children need mental protection and intellectual growth guarantees, the concept of restorative justice through diversion is needed, however, diversion has not been optimally implemented, especially in the Cirebon City area. The type of research used in this study is descriptive analytical legal research. Based on the results of the study, it is known that the process of investigating child criminal cases through diversion as an effort to realize restorative justice at the Cirebon City Police is not optimal, this is because 95 cases of violence committed by children were resolved at the Cirebon City District Court in 2024.Constraintin the process of investigating cases of child criminal acts through restorative justice at the Cirebon City Police in the form of The lack of public knowledge regarding the resolution of criminal cases through restorative justice; the lack of public awareness of reconciliation through restorative justice in cases of minor assault; and the lack of comprehensive and specific regulation of the resolution of hate speech crimes through restorative justice within government regulations, both central and regional.