EUROPE: The evaluation of the implementation of international standards in national juvenile justice systems

Summary: The aim of this Green Paper is to discuss what the European member states need in order to evaluate the level to which international human rights standards on Juvenile Justice have been implemented in their juvenile justice systems, to identify prevailing problems which hamper evaluations and comparisons and to present existing national and international good practice approaches.

In November 2010, the International Juvenile Justice Observatory held the second meeting of the European Council of Juvenile Justice. All three sections of this European Council (Academic Section, NGO Section, Public Administration Section) decided to work on different issues which are assessed as being in need of development. The Public Administration Section decided to publish a Green Paper on the question in how far European juvenile justice systems have implemented international juvenile justice standards and how the level of implementation can be
measured.

The aim of this Green Paper is to discuss what the European member states need in order to evaluate the level to which international human rights standards on Juvenile Justice have been implemented in their juvenile justice systems, to identify prevailing problems which hamper evaluations and comparisons and to present existing national and international good practice approaches.

The Green paper starts with an overview of the basic principles of the international juvenile justice standards. Section 3 discusses the question of the binding character of international juvenile justice standards. Section 4 provides information about the knowledge of the level of implementation of these standards and, with the help of some examples, shows how juvenile justice standards are implemented into law and practice. Section 5 is dedicated to existing tools and instruments for the evaluation of juvenile justice systems both at the national and international level. Finally, section 6 contains conclusions and recommendations in the hope that they might be subject to further discussions and developments in order to improve European juvenile justice.

Further information:

pdf: http://www.oijj.org/doc/doc/2012/documental_9701_en.pdf

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