The juvenile justice architecture demands the shift paradigm of juvenile justice to be founded on the human- rights- based practices of rehabilitation and reintegration1, as in Scandinavian jurisprudence. This paper argues that the juvenile law and policy must be informed by thw established facts about criminal psychology2, and it was fund that the impact of peer pressure3 and absence of cognitive maturity at the adolescence stage conjoin and prove that the dissimilar legal standard of culpability is required. The system failure that can pose a threat of violating the right of the juvenile to develop and escalate recidivism is the the perpetuated use of adult style sanctions or institutional cohorting which facilitates peer contagion4. Keeping in mind the Norwegian model, the proposed legal framework must be based on the principles of the restorative justice and community - based interventions, and must include the psychological assessment of maturity in sentencing cases in order to revolutionize the legal objective of rehabilitation and successful integration of the child into society . Lastly ,it is not only highly recommendable that a psychologically informed , developmental model but a legal/ ethical requirement to achieve the efficacy , oral legitimacy and low- recidivism outcomes that the modern justice reform requires.