Background and Objectives: The aim of the present study is to find out the level of depression, anxiety and stress among Juvenile delinquent staying at Juvenile home.

Methods: A sample of 60 males out of which 30 were juvenile delinquents and another 30 belongs to normal population between the ages of 12 to 18 years was selected using convenient sampling technique. The data was collected from Juvenile home Takyel of Imphal west district of Manipur. Semi structured proforma was used for collecting the socio demographic details and Depression, Anxiety and Stress scale Dass was then used to assess the degree of severity of the core symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.

Results: The present finding indicated that highly significant difference between delinquent and non–delinquent group with respect to the levels of Depression as manifest by p–value =0.000. This finding revealed that juvenile delinquents suffered more depression as compared to the non–delinquent.However,in case of levels of anxiety (p–value = 0.063) and stress (p–value = 0.136), no significant difference were found between the two groups.

Conclusion:It is noticed from the present study that larger number of juvenile offenders suffered from major depressive disorder and due to the lack of proper treatment facility in the observation home majority of them are undiagnosed. So, improving the infrastructure facility and providing vocational and life skills education in special home, juvenile home and observation home is suggested. This will help in reducing the violence and crime committed by youths in our state.