Cross-cutting Issues. Juvenile Justice. Criminal Assessment Toolkit
- Document number
- 2192
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- Cross-cutting Issues. Juvenile Justice. Criminal Assessment Toolkit
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Training Material/Resources,
- Keywords
- Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems,
- Summary
- The focus in this assessment tool will be weighted toward child-specific instruments. An important recent document that has guided the development of this assessor tool is the UNICEF/UNODC Manual for the Measurement of Juvenile Justice Indicators (April 2006), which represents an attempt to define and elaborate global indicators for this sector. The document identifies 15 indicators, all chosen on the basis of their feasibility, and because they will assist local and national officials to assess the extent to which the juvenile justice system for which they are responsible is in place and functioning. The 15 indicators consist of 11 quantitative indicators and 4 policy indicators. The quantitative indicators consist of both ‘snapshot' measurements' and measurements that must be made over a period of time - 12 months in some cases. Four of the 11 quantitative indicators are identified as core. All fifteen juvenile justice indicators are important for the assessment of the situation of children in conflict with the law. However, in situations where a country is unable to measure all fifteen indicators, the core indicators are those that should be measured as a matter of priority.
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