EP hearing on juvenile delinquency focuses on prevention and rehabilitation 02-04-2007 Prevention is the key to solving the problem of young offenders. This is the
opinion of the European Parliament’s (EP) Women's Rights Committee, voiced at a
public hearing on juvenile delinquency. The hearing took place on 20 March 2007
in Brussels. The meeting was organised to serve as input for an EP own
initiative report to be written by MEP Katerina Batzeli.
According to estimates, 22 per cent of young Europeans can be characterised
as juvenile delinquents. The extent and severity vary from country to country
however. In Germany, the number of crimes committed has fallen over the last
decade, but the severity of offences has increased. For France, the statistics
show a different picture. Here, juvenile delinquency has increased with 70 per
cent in the last ten years. Severe offences by young people have become less
frequent, however.
At the hearing, several causes for rising juvenile delinquent behaviour and
its severity were mentioned:
Participants in the hearing named several key approaches to combat juvenile
delinquency:
For more information on the public hearing and its outcomes, please contact
Jana Jalvi of the EP’s
Women's Rights Committee press service.
Source: European Parliament back |
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