Children in criminal judicial proceedings - comparative information on alternatives to judicial proceedings

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.