Children in criminal judicial proceedings - comparative information on alternatives to judicial proceedings
Description
Here you can find comparative information on children in criminal judicial proceedings - comparative information on alternatives to judicial proceedings for all the EU28 Member States on the basis of information collected from national and international databases. The data is available on e.g:
Existence of preset budgets for / public costs of maintaining alternatives to judicial proceedings;
Offenders who are given the opportunity to elect an alternative to judicial proceedings in a 12 month period;
Alternatives to judicial proceedings such as mediation, diversion (of judicial mechanisms) and alternative dispute resolution to be prescribed by law whenever these serve the child's best interests;
Legal obligation to obtain free and voluntary consent to the diversion from the child or consent from parents if the child is below a certain age;
Existence of structures (e.g. administrative forms) to obtain the free and voluntary written consent to participating in a diversion programme from a child;
Children charged who entered a pre-sentence diversion scheme;
Legal obligation to provide the equivalent level of safeguards to children in-court and out-of-court proceedings;
Statutory provisions for the use and /or prioritisation of alternatives to judicial proceedings for children in conflict with the law.
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Resources
- Alternatives to judicial proceedings Excel XLS
- Criminal European Union Summary Report PDF
- Headline indicators Excel XLS
- Masterlist Excel XLS
Documentation
- Type of Dataset
- Statistical
- Release Date
- 2016-11-16
- Modified Date
- 2017-01-04
- Temporal Coverage From
- 2008-01-01
- Temporal Coverage To
- 2011-01-01
- Geographical Coverage
- Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Germany, Czechia, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, United Kingdom, France, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Lithuania, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg
- Language
- English
- Catalogue
- European Union Open Data Portal
Contact
European Commission, DG Justice and Consumers, C2 Fundamental rights
Rue Montoyer 59, Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 0080067891011
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/rights-child/index_en.htm