Criminal care for the young person is embodied in its being a broader concept than criminal protection, because the latter specializes in criminalization and punishment, that is, it provides protection for young individuals from every attack on them. As for criminal care, in addition, it includes preventive policies that prevent young people from falling or committing criminal behavior، And that is through taking all the ways, means and procedures drawn up by the Iraqi legislator, which contribute to the upbringing of young children in a positive atmosphere that instills in them the seed of proper and disciplined behavior, and this comes primarily from the family in which the child lives. In the event that the child does not have a family for any reason whatsoever, the legislator has created alternative systems and means that work to compensate the child with a family that takes care of him, raises him and takes care of him in various fields, whether it is in the field of education, education, health or providing his necessary needs that he needs in his daily life, so that no Exploitation by the weak, or his feeling that he is a victim of exceptional special circumstances that lead him to do work that is not appropriate to his age, and thus may affect him and push him to do incorrect and illegal behavior that makes him liable to punishment and becomes one of the perpetrators of crimes.
Kamal Musdq Arrak (Thu,) studied this question.