For minors who violate the law and commit crimes, the policy of education, probation and salvation shall be implemented, and the principle of giving priority to education and supplementing punishment shall be adhered to.

Minors who commit crimes shall be given a lighter, mitigated or exempted punishment according to law.

Article 55

Public security organs, people's procuratorates and people's courts should take care of the characteristics of minors' physical and mental development, respect their personal dignity and protect their legitimate rights and interests when handling juvenile criminal cases and cases involving the protection of minors' rights and interests, and set up special institutions or designate special personnel to handle them according to needs.

Article 56

Public security organs and people's procuratorates shall notify guardians to be present when interrogating juvenile criminal suspects, juvenile witnesses and victims.

The public security organs, people's procuratorates and people's courts shall protect the reputation of the victims when handling criminal cases in which minors are sexually assaulted.

Article 57

Minors in custody or serving sentences shall be held separately from adults.

Minors in custody or serving sentences who have not completed compulsory education shall be given compulsory education.

Minors who have been released from prison shall not be discriminated against in resuming their studies, entering higher schools and finding jobs.

Article 58

For juvenile criminal cases, news reports, film and television programs, public publications and the Internet shall not disclose the name, domicile, photos and images of the minor or information that may be inferred from the minor.

Article 59

The correction of serious bad behaviors of minors and the prevention of criminal acts shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency. Article 44 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency shall be investigated for criminal responsibility, and the principles of education, probation and salvation shall be implemented, and the principle of giving priority to education and supplementing punishment shall be adhered to.

When handling criminal cases of minors, judicial organs should ensure that minors exercise their litigation rights, ensure that minors get legal help, and conduct targeted legal education according to their physical and mental characteristics and criminal situation.

Minor students who have been subjected to criminal compulsory measures shall not be revoked their school status before the judgment of the people's court takes effect.

Article 45 The people's courts shall try criminal cases of juvenile delinquency by judges who are familiar with the physical and mental characteristics of minors or by juvenile courts formed by judges and people's jurors according to law.

Cases of crimes committed by minors aged over 14 and under 16 shall not be heard in public. Cases of crimes committed by minors aged over 16 and under 18 are generally not heard in public.

Where a minor is involved in a crime, news reports, film and television programs and public publications shall not disclose the minor's name, domicile, photos and information that may be inferred from the minor.

Article 46 Minors detained, arrested and executed with criminal punishments shall be held separately from adults, managed separately and educated separately. During the execution of punishment, the executing organ shall strengthen the legal education for juvenile offenders and provide vocational and technical education for juvenile offenders. For juvenile offenders who have not completed compulsory education, the executing organ shall ensure that they continue to receive compulsory education.

Article 47 Parents or other guardians of minors, schools, urban residents' committees and rural villagers' committees shall take effective measures to help educate minors under the age of 16 who have not been subjected to criminal punishment or are exempted from criminal punishment, or minors who have been sentenced to non-imprisonment sentence, suspended sentence or parole, and assist judicial organs to do a good job in education and rescue.

Urban residents' committees and rural villagers' committees may employ retirees or other personnel with excellent ideological and moral character, decent work style and enthusiasm for the education of minors to assist in the work of minors in education aid as stipulated in the preceding paragraph.

Article 48 Minors who are exempted from criminal punishment according to law, sentenced to non-imprisonment punishment, suspended sentence, parole or whose punishment has been completed shall enjoy the same rights as other minors in terms of resumption of schooling, further studies and employment, and no unit or individual may discriminate against them.