Child-friendly Justice : a quarter of a century of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child /
Child-friendly Justice assesses how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has affected the development of child law and the promotion of children’s rights in the past twenty-five years. Its 24 studies probe a broad variety of issues relating to children’ s contact with civil, administrative a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL,
[2015]
Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill Nijhoff, 2015 |
| Series: | Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights
1 Stockholm studies in child law and children's rights ; Volume 1 Stockholm studies in child law and children's rights ; v. 1 |
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Table of Contents:
- Child-friendly Justice: A Quarter of a Century of the un Convention on the Rights of the Child; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART 1: Basic Components of Child-friendly Justice Systems; A Quarter of a Century with the UN Conventionon the Rights of the Child; Reflections on Child-friendly Justice; Best Interests of the Child; Corporal Punishment, Crime and Human Rights: Lessons for Child-friendly Justice; Relational Representation: The Empowerment of Children in Justice Systems
- Preliminary Material / Said Mahmoudi , Pernilla Leviner , Anna Kaldal and Katrin Lainpelto
- Introduction / Pernilla Leviner, , Anna Kaldal and Katrin Lainpelto
- A Quarter of a Century with the un Convention on the Rights of the Child / Mats Melin
- Children’s Rights, Freedom from Violence and Criminal Justice / Marta Santos Pais
- Reflections on Child-friendly Justice / Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
- Best Interests of the Child / Jean Zermatten
- Corporal Punishment, Crime and Human Rights: Lessons for Child-friendly Justice / Ashley Stewart-Tufescu and Joan E. Durrant
- Relational Representation: The Empowerment of Children in Justice Systems / Hrefna Friðriksdóttir
- Children’s Right to be Heard from Their Unique Perspectives / Ann-Christin Cederborg
- Children’s Evidence and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Improving the Legal System for Children / Deborah A. Goldfarb , Gail S. Goodman and Michael J. Lawler
- Child-sensitive Justice for Children of Imprisoned Parents / Adele D. Jones and Alex Hirschfield
- Challenges in Implementing Child Rights – A Call for Innovative Governance for Children / Trond Waage
- It Is Not Child-friendly to Make Children Criminals / Peterling Newell
- From the Inside – Children and Young People on Life in Police Cells and in Remand Prisons / Fredrik Malmberg
- “Without Resorting to Judicial Proceedings”: Diversion and Mediation / Rusudan Mikhelidze
- Children’s Houses – Barnahus: Today and in the Future / Anna Kaldal and Carl Göran Svedin
- Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime in India / Asha Bajpai
- Evidential Difficulties in Criminal Proceedings Concerning Alleged Child Sexual Abuse against Children with Neuropsychiatric Disorders / Katrin Lainpelto
- Justice for the Migrant Child: The Protective Force of the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Mary E. Crock
- Unaccompanied and Separated Asylum-seeking Minors: Implementing a Rights-based Approach in the Asylum Process / Rebecca Thorburn Stern
- The Child’s Right to Protection of Private Life and Family Life / Elisabeth Gording Stang
- The Right to a Fair Trial from a Child’s Perspective – Reflections from a Comparative Analysis of Two Child-protection Systems / Pernilla Leviner
- Children and Justice / Nils Muižnieks and Françoise Kempf
- European Court of Human Rights / Elisabet Fura
- What’s in a Name? “Child-friendly” Justice in Africa / Julia Sloth-Nielsen
- Access to Justice in the Inter-American System: Standards and Challenges / Rosa Maria Ortiz
- Index / Said Mahmoudi , Pernilla Leviner , Anna Kaldal and Katrin Lainpelto
- Child-sensitive Justice for Children of Imprisoned ParentsPart 2: Children and Criminal Justice Systems; It Is Not Child-friendly to Make Children Criminals; Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime in India; Evidential Difficulties in Criminal Proceedings Concerning Alleged Child Sexual Abuse against Children with Neuropsychiatric Disorders; PART 3: Children and Civil and Administrative Justice; Justice for the Migrant Child: The Protective Force of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Unaccompanied and Separated Asylum-seeking Minors: Implementing a Rights-based Approach in the Asylum ProcessThe Right to a Fair Trial from a Child's Perspective
- Reflections from a Comparative Analysis of Two Child-protection Systems; PART 4: Child-friendly Justice: Continental Perspectives; Section 1: Europa; Children and Justice; European Court of Human Rights; Section 2: Africa; Section 3: Americas; Access to Justice in the Inter-American System: Standards and Challenges; Index