IJJO Interviews

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.

The IJJO pays tribute to Mr. Ronald Woodbridge, who died recently. Mr. Woodbridge, adviser to the Latin American Institute of the United Nations for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) Costa Rica has been for the last 8 years a great friend and active promoter of the IJJO Latin America, ensuring the position of President of the Latin American Observatory of juvenile Justice (OLJJ) since its conception.

In this new edition, the juvenile justice system in Kenya is analyzed by Mr. Armstrong, who reveals, among other things, the situation and functioning of the detention system of children in Kenya.