Generally crimes are committed by adults, but it can not be denied that
there are also children who commit criminal acts. This suggests that the
development of crime also involves children. Issue in this research is how the
investigator's role in dealing with criminal offenses committed by children in
accordance with Law Number 11 of 2012 about juvenile justice system and what
are the constraints faced by the investigator? Reasoning methods used in this
research is deductive. Deductive process is a process of deduction from general
knowledge and is used to assess the occurrence of a specific nature.
Children are a man or a woman who has not grown or have not hit
puberty. investigators are police officers or officials of the Republic Indonesia of
certain civil servants who are authorized by law to conduct an investigation.
Juvenile justice system is the overall process of resolving cases of children in
conflict with the law, from the inquiry stage to the stage of supervision after
serving a criminal. In the juvenile justice system, diversion investigators are
required to implement the settlement of criminal offenses committed by children.
Diversion is the transfer of a child settlement of the criminal justice process to the
outside of the criminal justice process. investigator's role in the diversion process
is as mediator. After the investigator issued a determination letter termination
investigation. Criminal acts of children continued to judicial proceedings, if the
deal fails diversion. Constraints faced is the difficulty investigators will determine
the status of the criminal case because the child determination letter termination of
the investigation has been issued but the process is still running.