The term ‘children- in-contact with law’ CCL refers to any person below the age of 18 who has come in contact with the justice system as a result of committing a crime or being suspected of committing a crime. The kind of offences that the children are usually involved in are murder or attempt to murder, theft and related offences, rape, violation of Section 14 (Foreigners’) Act and so on. Some are booked as offenders with no fault of theirs, such as illegally crossing the Indo-Bangladesh or Indo-Nepal border with an adult. Judicial processes are often lengthy and often take time while the child is kept confined in an Observation Home/ Special Home. Children thus face long periods of uncertainty and instability. Children living in sheltered care become alienated from the family and society at large, deprived of love and affection.
The study was conducted on 34male children residing in Dhrubashram which is an observational home for male children- in-contact with law to understand their needs through mapping their personalities so that some of their dominant drives, emotions, sentiments, complexes and conflicts of their personalities could be understood, thereby helping to develop a child care plan and a Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) module from it. In order to map the personality of the individuals, a standardized test of personality called the Thematic Apperception Test, familiarly known as the TAT, was administered.From the study it was found that the participants have emotional difficulties along with complexities in interpersonal relationship.