Criminal Responsibility of Juvenile Offenders for Aggravated Mobile Phone Theft Based on Decision No. 22/Pid.Sus-Anak/2023/PN.Liw

Abstract

One of the criminal acts involving minors as perpetrators is theft with violence (robbery) of a mobile phone under aggravating circumstances, as decided by the Liwa District Court in Decision No. 22/Pid.Sus-Anak/2023/PN.Liw with the defendant Anak bin Kausar Arif. The research aims to identify the aggravating factors that led the minor to commit the act of violent theft (robbery) and to analyze how the court decision regulates the criminal responsibility of minors in such aggravated conditions. This research employs both primary and secondary data using an empirical and normative legal approach. The data were analyzed qualitatively through descriptive explanations arranged systematically. Based on Decision No. 22/Pid.Sus-Anak/2023/PN.Liw, the findings reveal that the aggravating factors contributing to the child’s involvement in the theft were: an environment providing opportunities to commit crimes, peer influence offering negative examples, and economic conditions fostering poverty and hardship. The court found the child legally and convincingly guilty of violating Article 363 paragraph (1) points 3 and 5 of the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) and sentenced him to imprisonment in the Special Child Development Institution (LPKA) Pesawaran for four months and fifteen days. The decision demonstrates that the child was proven guilty of committing aggravated theft of a mobile phone.