Community Service and Mediation in the Juvenile Justice Legislation in Europe (From Restorative Justice for Juveniles: Potentialities, Risks and Problems, P 159-183, 1998, Lode Walgrave, ed. -- See NCJ-180156)

• NCJ Number: 180160
• Author(s): Wim Schelkens
• Editor(s): Lode Walgrave
• Date Published: 1998
• Length: 25 pages
• Sale Source: Leuven University Press
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Conference Material
• Language: English
• Country: Belgium

Annotation

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in Europe in community service and victim-offender mediation as possible responses to offenses committed by juveniles.

Abstract

The shift from rehabilitation and re-education strategies toward restorative justice introduces an important shift in the position of juvenile offenders, from being a passive subject of treatment toward being an accountable and responsible person. The judicial framework that allows community service and mediation to be used with juvenile offenders is described for France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Portugal, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, and Sweden. Conditions that have to be met for juvenile offenders to qualify for community service or mediation are identified, primarily age and offense. Judicial guarantees related to community service and mediation for juvenile offenders are examined that concern benefit of the doubt, proportionality, and net widening. 92 references and 50 footnotes