IJJO Interviews

In this interview, Ms. Marin, the Head of Department for Protection of the Rights of the Child, gives an overview of the current state of the youth justice system in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through her expertise and knowledge of Children Rights, she lists the recommendations of the recently created Institution of Human Rights Ombudsmen of BH for improving that system.

In this interview, the Director of Psychology department and the Law-Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School talk about the program he manages in the USA providing technical assistance to juvenile justice systems. Dr. Grisso underlines, that there is very little research evidence that screening and assessment lead to successful and effective treatment. He also presents his new area of study aiming at finding ways to improve mental health screening in juvenile justice for young people with diverse cultural backgrounds.

In this interview, the National Director of National Youth Service (SENAME) explains how the 2006 law reform on juveniles’ penal responsibility (RPA) has affected the juvenile justice system in Chile, transforming it into one that recognizes and safeguards juveniles’ rights, via differential treatment from adult offenders and a pronounced focus on socio-educational intervention, empowerment and social reintegration.

In this interview, the Regional Director of the South Caucasus Regional Office, on one hand states and analyses the current situation and the evolution of the juvenile justice in Georgia. On the other hand, the Regional Director advocates the legislative and penal reforms needed to avoid liberty’s privation measures and underlined the essential action leaded by PRI in Georgia, through lobbying nearby the government during the reform’s period in 1999 and collaboration with local NGO.

Thematic interview in the frame of the PROGRAMME 'PREVENTION OF AND FIGHT AGAINST CRIME' - DREJC 'Drug - Related and Juvenile Crime' (JLS/2007/ISEC/500) - as a result of the active participation of the following experts: Mr. Rafael Forcada Chapa, Ms. Graciela Silvosa Rodríguez and Ms. María Jesús Justo Nieto, in collaboration with the entity Fundación Diagrama - Intervención Psicosocial (Spain), member and active participant of this European program.