Juvenile justice
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- The need to abolish imprisonment for life sentences for juveniles
- ( B. A. Stevenson / Equal Justice Initiative , 2007)
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In the United States dozens of 13- and 14-year-old children have been sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole after being prosecuted as adults. While the United States Supreme ...
Sentencing juvenile offenders to life without parole in California
- ( C. Back;E. Calvin / Human Rights Watch , 2007)
- This report conducted research in California on the sentencing of youth offenders to life without parole. This report paints a detailed picture of Californians serving life without parole for crimes c...
- Creating child friendly courts
- ( M. Koome / African Child Policy Forum , 2007)
- This presentation addresses how the Children Act 2001 has been interpreted to address the concerns of children in relation to their interaction with the judicial system. It includes a brief descriptio...
- Challenges regarding the age of criminal responsibility
- ( G. Odongo / African Child Policy Forum , 2007)
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This presentation examines the concept of age of criminal responsibility. It looks at the international law, the Beijing rules and the UN committee on the Rights of the Child (CROC) as well as the ...
- Juvenile justice in Georgia
- ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2007)
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This paper examines how well current legislation and practice in Georgia is consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Minimum Standards and Norms of Juvenile Justice and ...
- Abusing children’s human rights: interviews with child prisoners in Burundi
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2007)
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There is currently no juvenile justice system in Burundi, no alternatives to incarceration for children and no services to help children once they are released from prison. This report details the ...
- What factors can help young people after release from prison? Findings from Brazil
- ( J.D. McLennan; I. Bordin / Child Rights Information Network , 2006)
- What factors make young people in Brazil more or less likely to be put in prison, and what happens to them after incarceration? This report presents findings from a project that used surveys and inter...
- Government "rehabilitation" centres violate children’s rights
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2006)
- Street children in Hanoi face abuses from government authorities who regularly remove children to ‘rehabilitation’ centres, where they are detained in very poor conditions for up to six months without...
- Children’s experiences of conflict with the law and recommendations to protect them
- ( F. Martin; J. Parry-Williams / Save the Children Fund , 2005)
- This report addresses the issues facing children who are in conflict with the law. Drawing throughout on case studies and first-hand descriptions of children’s experiences, the first part analyses the...
- Improving juvenile justice in Pakistan
- ( A. Coleridge; G. Qadri / Save the Children [Sweden] , 2006)
- The purpose of this report is to document and publish the experiences learned by Save the Children Sweden and its partner organisations, in their interventions to improve the Juvenile Justice system i...
