IJJO / International Juvenile Justice Observatory

International - The electronic Newsletter of the IJJO, is a service created by the Observatory for its users and collaborators, to receive it monthly in your email it’s only necessary to register as a user or collaborator.

IJJO / Observatorio Internacional de Justicia Juvenil

International - The State of the World’s Children 2008 assesses the state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children today. These issues are at the core of the human development.

The report highlights the importance of investing in family’s health, as main indicator of economic development and one of the surest ways for a country to set its course towards a better future.

IJJO / International Juvenile Justice Observatory

National, United States - There are 227 inmates in California sentenced as juveniles to life in prison without parole. The International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) highlights the report 'When I Die, They’ll Send Me Home. Youth Sentenced to Life without Parole in California' by Human Rights Watch.

The Juvenile Life Without Parole Reform Act (SB 999) is scheduled for a vote in the State Senate before January 31, 2008. Human Rights Watch’s research in California and across the country has found that youth are sentenced to life without parole for a wide range of crimes and culpability and not for the worst crimes committed by minors. In fact, 45 percent of youth who had been sentenced to life without parole had not actually committed the murder.

IJJO / Observatorio Internacional de Justicia Juvenil

National, United Kingdom - 'Young offenders Survey' is the title of a recent survey carried out in the United Kingdom by ICM Research for the organisation ‘Prison Reform Trust’. According to the analysis of these statistics, two in three people of over 1000 British polled, think prisons without educational measures are ‘universities of crime’ and that they are not an efficient resource for the prevention of juvenile delinquency.

This research reveals the nature of the British public’s opinion concerning the measures that are applied to young offenders. They mainly think that the development of preventive and community measures as well as educational activities are more important than punitive and prison strategies for minors in conflict with the law. In fact, the public opinion has not become tougher towards juvenile delinquency, despite the mediatisation of young offenders’ cases.