BENGALURU: At least one juvenile is arrested on charges of rape every four hours on an average in India since the last three years. Similarly, one juvenile is apprehended every two hours for assault on women with intent to outrage their modesty. Five such juveniles are charged with one cognizable crime or the other.Union home ministry's latest data reveals that between January 1 and December 31, 2016, some 2,054 juveniles were arrested for rape (one every 4.2 hours to be exact) and 1,627 were apprehended for assaulting women.In fact, the number of juveniles held for rape has been consistent for the last three years - at one arrest every four hours. There were 6,039 arrests between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2016 (that's one arrest every 4.3 hours).However, the number of juveniles arrested for assaulting women is higher in 2016 compared to the data of last three years as a whole, when one juvenile was charged every two hours - a total of 4,997 cases between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2016.These latest figures will be used for the National Crime Records Bureau annual data compilation for 2016 as data for 2017 is still being compiled.Sociologist Samata Deshmane of the Bangalore University says the problem is not just sociological, but also psychological. "It's flawed socialisation that allows people to view women in a way that encourages them to hurt, or even destroy them."Psychologists like Sulata Shenoy and BN Gangadhar, while arguing that an adolescent mind does not worry about consequences, bat for sex education, among other necessary measures.