Full Description
Children who come into conflict with the law are more likely to have experienced violence or adversity than their non-offending peers. Exacerbating the deleterious effects of this childhood trauma, children's contact with the criminal justice system poses undue risks of physical, sexual, and psychological violence. This book examines the specific forms of violence that children experience through their contact with the criminal justice system.
Comprising contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in children's rights and youth justice, this book profiles evidence-based prevention strategies and case studies from around the world. It illustrates the diversity of contexts in which various forms of violence against children unfold and advances knowledge about both the nature and extent of violence against children in criminal justice settings, and the specific situational factors that contribute to, or inhibit, the successful implementation of violence prevention strategies. It demonstrates that specialised child justice systems, in which children's rights are upheld, are crucial in preventing the violence inherent to conventional criminal justice regimes.
Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be of interest to students and researchers engaged in studies of criminology and criminal justice, youth justice, victimology, crime prevention, and children's rights.
Contents
List of figures. List of contributors. Foreword MARTA SANTOS PAIS. Introduction WENDY O'BRIEN. PART I: Problematising the (in)visibility of children in conflict with the law. 1 Youth justice 'crises' and the role for children's rights in ending cycles of violence against children in conflict with the law WENDY O'BRIEN. 2 Media regulation: strategies to mitigate violence against children who are publicly 'named and shamed' FAITH GORDON. 3 Protective measures for children accused or convicted of serious crimes NESSA LYNCH. 4 Independent oversight and monitoring: advancing the rights of children deprived of their liberty LOUISE FORDE AND URSULA KILKELLY. PART II: Strategies to ensure the implementation of protective statutory and procedural safeguards. 5 Specialised child justice systems in Latin America: from national legal standards to effective implementation NICOLÁ SESPEJO. 6 Legal implementation: the missing piece of the puzzle in safeguarding children from violence in the Philippines ROWENA LEGASPI-MEDINA. 7 Access to justice for child victims of sexual violence in institutional care in India: the importance of legal and therapeutic supports ASHA BAJPAI. PART III: Realising children's rights through prevention. 8 A hiding to something: reduction of violence against children in South Africa's justice system ANN SKELTON. 9 The call to end inhuman sentencing of children VERONICA YATES AND LEO RATLEDGE. 10 Reforming pretrial detention of children: strategies and challenges in the Netherlands and the United States YANNICK VAN DEN BRINK AND BART LUBOW. 11 Diversion and restorative justice as tools to protect children from the violence of criminal justice involvement: lessons from Thailand MONIQUE ANDERSON AND KATTIYA RATANADILOK. 12 The mutual compatibility of children's rights and public safety: community-based measures for children in conflict with the law in Catalonia 216 MANEL CAPDEVILA AND CÉDRIC FOUSSARD.
