4 Institution for young offenders

It is also recommended that law enforcement agencies consider young people as assets in preventing juvenile crime and that youth desks be created at formal law enforcement institutions to deal with youth cases.

Supervision and aftercare services for young offenders

Young people reiterate the point to Governments and the public at large that the great majority of young people are not engaged in crime.

Amnesty International, Zambia Time to Abolish the Death Penalty, AI Index AFR 63 004 2001 (July 2001) and Death Penalty News, AI Index ACT 53 001 2004 (June 2004).

The issue of juvenile delinquency has also come into focus during the review period.

It consolidated provisions of the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act and youth provisions of the Correction Act into a comprehensive provincial statute written specifically for youth.

Unemployment, discrimination... gangsterism, juvenile delinquency... but under our new twentyyear plan... we will catch up with you.

Member, Governing Council of the National Research Centre in Kenya, which is responsible for conducting research in crime including juvenile delinquency.

These measures can be roughly divided into two parts the first concerns the possibility of reducing the participation of juveniles in adults apos criminal activities through reinforced action against adult criminals using juveniles as accomplices the second concerns all those measures which are carried out to ensure the protection of youth, such as free phonelines.

It is consistent with the federal Youth Criminal Justice Act and is up to date with current practice.

Also, institutional frameworks for crime prevention were broadened in 1997 through an increase in the number of police specializing in juvenile crime.

Juvenile delinquency

Syria's juvenile delinquency law of 1974 considers delinquent juveniles to be victims.

The programme aims to strengthen the skills of the workforce and to reduce the recidivism rate, especially among young offenders.

He has said that unemployment and a lack of educational opportunities draws youth to criminal gangs.

Several speakers also discussed an array of initiatives relating to juvenile justice, as well as measures designed to discourage youth crime and address juvenile delinquency in a holistic and comprehensive manner.

Juvenile delinquency

There are strong links between youth victimization and offending.

They feel that poverty and changing social structures are two contributing factors to juvenile delinquency.

(i) Crime prevention strategies for youth at risk

As a follow up to IYF, the Indicative Guide for Action on Family IssuesDepartment for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, Indicative Guide for Action on Family Issues (Vienna, United Nations, 1995). was published, which, in sections on domestic violence, urbanization and families, crime prevention and adolescent delinquency, emphasizes the crucial importance of drawing attention to the family specific aspects of crime prevention, juvenile delinquency and criminal justice.

In addition, according to information from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a direct correlation can be established between recorded child abuse victims and juvenile delinquents.

Youth prison system

4. Finally, the implementation of preventive measures to diminish the risk of involvement of juveniles in criminal activities appears to be the most recent feature in the field of juvenile welfare.

Rehabilitation of juvenile offenders

(b) Crime prevention in urban areas, juvenile and violent criminality

(b) Crime prevention in urban areas, juvenile and violent criminality

Training on prevention of crime, treatment of offenders, juvenile delinquency, Japan.

Young offenders detained at Executive discretion (formerly at Her Majesty's pleasure )

A project to address the issue of juvenile delinquency was formulated by the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the United Nations and will be implemented by UNDP in the summer of 1998.

16. A particularly frightening phenomenon is the increasing number of juveniles, in several cases pre adolescent children, particularly from inner cities, who are involved with criminal groups in the sale of illicit drugs.

Particular attention should be paid to the prevention of juvenile delinquency, the protection of the rights of children deprived of their liberty, respect for fundamental rights and legal safeguards in all aspects of the juvenile justice system and full independence and impartiality of the judiciary dealing with juveniles.

Particular attention should be paid to the prevention of juvenile delinquency, the protection of the rights of children deprived of their liberty, respect for fundamental rights and legal safeguards in all aspects of the juvenile justice system and full independence and impartiality of the judiciary dealing with juveniles.

Such crimes not only disrupted the efforts of Member States in the area of development, peace and justice, but also misguided young people towards crime.

For example, many of the risk factors that correlate with an illicit demand for drugs correspond with those identified by research into juvenile delinquency and quot criminal careers quot for some types of crime.

The Special Rapporteur wishes to express her particular appreciation of the comprehensive training module developed in this regard and used since 1982 by the Office for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, which is responsible for carrying out law enforcement training programmes on juvenile delinquency.

The juvenile informed the Special Rapporteur that he was 17 years old and that he had been convicted of murder when he was 15 years old.

Children apos s Program, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice

(c) Placing juvenile delinquents in centres for minors

Youth note that Governments in many countries still do not differentiate between petty crimes, violence and organized crime.

Young people recommend that Governments promote a culture of non violence and crime prevention with a focus on life skills education and positive self development for offending juveniles.

14. There is a special system of sanctions under the German legal order for criminal offences committed by juveniles and adolescents, i.e. those who were not yet 21 years of age at the time of offence.

(c) Strategies and best practices for crime prevention, in particular in relation to urban crime and youth at risk

Joint programmes in collaboration with young people may also be an effective way to minimize armed crimes.