Juvenile Justice: Harmonising Applicable Justice Systems

The International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) together with the County Council of Justice and Public Administrations of the Generalit at Valenciana (Spain) organise the III International IJJO Conference, which will be titled: "Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe: current situation, trends in applicable models and good practices". The Conference will be held on the 21st and 22nd October 2008 at Valenciana, in Spain.

The III International IJJO Conference (Valencia 2008) will allow carrying out an analysis of the juvenile justice systems, action models and intervention programmes which are applicable in the different Member States of the European Union. The objective is to be able to come to a series of final conclusions regarding the proposal of establishing an approximation framework between the different States on the subject of juvenile justice. The resolutions adopted in this field by organisms like the Council of Europe, the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Parliament will serve as a reference, adding to this the final conclusions of the II International IJJO Conference "Juvenile Justice in Europe: a framework for the integration" (Brussels 2006).

The knowledge on the different systems will enable us to determine the divergence elements between the Member States regarding the treatment of minors in conflict with the law, based on political, economic, judicial and social diversity in the European Union. Over the last 15 years, juvenile justice systems in Europe have experienced considerable changes, especially in Eastern European countries. But Western European countries must also be mentioned because of new trends like the neo-correctionalist models and "minimum intervention" models as well as the implementation of restorative justice mechanisms and the coexistence of welfare models and responsibility models.

In this context, within the AGIS Programme, the European Commission has supported a comparative law study which analyses the most important issues regarding the treatment of minor offenders in all Member States based on the question: are there any possibilities to harmonise juvenile justice systems on a European level? This study has been led by the Department of Criminology of the University of Greifswald (Germany) together with the Don Calabria Institute (Italy) and Diagrama Foundation Psychosocial Intervention (Spain) and with the cooperation of the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (Belgium).

The aim of the research is to collect knowledge about the current situation of juvenile delinquency in the European Union, the existing juvenile justice systems, the reform processes, the reform proposals, the organisms involved in juvenile justice, ways of treatment, educational centres / confinement, alternative measures, recidivism and social integration. The main objective of this study is gather good practices in the field of juvenile justice.

Therefore the aim of the III International IJJO Conference "Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe: current situation, trends in the applicable models and good practices", organised by the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) together with County Council of Justice and Public Administrations of the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain), is for the different professionals and experts in the field of juvenile justice to share experiences and knowledge in order to promote new recommendations at a transnational level to the European Union. These recommendations are aimed at harmonising the applicable juvenile justice systems, the developed intervention measures and the dissemination of good practices in this field, contributing to the social inclusion of all minors and youngsters object of our study.

This International Conference will be developed according to the two following axes:

1. Comparative analysis of juvenile justice systems in Europe: current situation and trends in applicable models.

2. Good practices and recommendations applicable on juvenile justice systems.

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