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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.

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International - Defence for Children International, Netherlands (DCI-NL) together with the Howard League for Penal Reform (United Kingdom), DCI-Belgium and DCI-France have elaborated a report called 'Violence agains children in conflict with the law'. A Study on Indicators and Data Collection in Belgium, England and Wales, France and the Netherlands'.

Dr. Sharon Detrick -Project Manager. Study Coordinator. Defence for Children International Netherlands (DCI)- presents the report called 'Violence agains children in conflict with the law'. A Study on Indicators and Data Collection in Belgium, England and Wales, France and the Netherlands', by a message sent to the users and collaborators of the International Observatory of Juvenile Justice.

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Europea Union, European Union - 'Eliminating corporal punishment: A human rights imperative for Europe's children’ is the title of a recent publication by the Council of Europe. The International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) invites you to consult it.

This book illustrates the ban of corporal punishment of children from an international and regional legal perspective, the current context of physical punishment of the child in European countries, the recent research results, their effects and proportions as well as the children’s point of view. Finally it emphasizes the importance of banning corporal punishment which is a process that involves changes at a legal and political level.

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International - The IJJO was invited to the Conference 'Prevention of domestic violence and related crime disorder' by the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN) sponsored by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union on the 10th and 11the December 2007 at Lisbon (Portugal).

The EUCPN (EU Crime Prevention Network) was set up in May 2001 by an EU Council Decision to promote crime prevention activity in Member States across the EU, and to provide means through which valuable good practice in preventing crime, mainly "traditional" crime, could be shared.

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National, Ireland - In this interview, Mrs. Kilkelly analyses the juvenile justice system in Ireland and the judicial-legal framework of the minor offender. She also talks about the alternatives to the minor’s deprivation of liberty established by the current law on minors in Ireland.

Nikolaos Stamatakis

Greece - The young prison population in Greece continues to grow. The starting point was that there has been a conflict, or ‘crime’ and we would like to react to it. In our response we use the paradigm of 'restorative justice'. The purpose of that study was to explore why we chose this concept, and what is its possible impact on those who have been involved in the conflict with special regard to the juvenile offender.

Consult in depth article in english

Thesis advisor. Prof. Dr. Antonios Maganas. Department of Sociology - Section of Criminology. Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences. Athens. Greece.