The book—Children and Crime in India—is being published at a time when the nation is seriously contemplating the strengthening of its Juvenile Justice System in order to prevent children from getting on the wrong side of the law. Research has shown that the breaking of rules is part of the growth and development of children. Even under normal circumstances, most teens push family and societal boundaries. They retort, break rules, have fights and sometimes steal as they navigate into adulthood. Data show that most adolescent criminal behaviour is specific to adolescence period and will not continue into adulthood. Most adolescents will outgrow deviant behaviour, in much the same way as a toddler outgrows temper tantrums. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics of 2014 records that 482,30 children were apprehended during this period, accounting for 1.2% of the overall crimes in India, which has remained broadly steady for the past three years (NCRB, 2014). This is almost half the rate of those arrested in the UK and the USA. Given such a low level of participation of children in offences, they should not be viewed as creating a moral panic in society, as reflected in newspapers, videos and television.