- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Images toward the Emancipation of Children in Modern Western Culture
- The Evolution of the Children’s Rights Movement
- Taking Children’s Human Rights Seriously
- The Interrelated and Interdependent Nature of Children’s Rights
- A Child-Centered Approach to Children’s Rights Law Living Rights and Translations
- A Socioecological Model of Children’s Rights
- Critical Race Theory and Children’s Rights
- Feminist Legal Theory and Children’s Rights
- Intersectionality and Children’s Rights
- The Best Interests of the Child
- Citizenship and Rights of Children
- The Child’s Right to Family
- Child Participation
- Juvenile Justice
- Placing Children’s Freedom from Violence at the Heart of the Policy Agenda
- Continuing Dilemmas of International Adoption
- Economic and Labor Rights of Children
- The Health Rights of Children
- Revisiting the Three ‘R’s in Order to Realize Children’s Educational Rights Relationships, Resources, and Redress
- Poverty and Children’s Rights
- Situating the Rights versus Culture Binary within the Context of Colonial History in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Climate Change and Children’s Rights
- Taking Part, Joining in, and Being Heard?: Ethnographic Explorations of Children’s Participation
- National Human Rights Institutions for Children
- Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-Based Discrimination
- Embracing Our LGBTQ Youth: A Child Rights Paradigm
- Indigenous Children
- Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead
- Independent Children
- Trafficked Children
- Children in Armed Conflict
- Working Toward Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children
- Human Rights Education: Education about Children’s Rights
- Children’s Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Juvenile justice is a children’s rights issue. This chapter sheds light on the international children’s rights framework for juvenile justice and elaborates on its implications for juvenile justice systems at the domestic level. It discusses the comprehensive nature of the international legal framework and addresses key implementation challenges in light of the complexity of and controversies inherently related to juvenile justice. In doing so, the chapter shows there are specific challenges that ought to be recognized in order to enhance the protection of children in conflict with the law and secure a fair and child-specific approach. At the same time, it points at the progress made since adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which justifies the conclusion that the future of children’s rights implementation in the context of juvenile justice is a hopeful one.
Keywords: children’s rights, juvenile justice, children in conflict with the law, Convention on the Rights of the Child, fair trial, due process, child-friendly justice, pedagogical orientation, reintegration.
Ton Liefaard is Professor of Children's Rights and holds the UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights at Leiden Law School, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is Leiden Law School's Vice-Dean for Education and the director of the Master of Law's Programme (LL.M.) on Advanced Studies in International Children's Rights at Leiden University.
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- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Images toward the Emancipation of Children in Modern Western Culture
- The Evolution of the Children’s Rights Movement
- Taking Children’s Human Rights Seriously
- The Interrelated and Interdependent Nature of Children’s Rights
- A Child-Centered Approach to Children’s Rights Law Living Rights and Translations
- A Socioecological Model of Children’s Rights
- Critical Race Theory and Children’s Rights
- Feminist Legal Theory and Children’s Rights
- Intersectionality and Children’s Rights
- The Best Interests of the Child
- Citizenship and Rights of Children
- The Child’s Right to Family
- Child Participation
- Juvenile Justice
- Placing Children’s Freedom from Violence at the Heart of the Policy Agenda
- Continuing Dilemmas of International Adoption
- Economic and Labor Rights of Children
- The Health Rights of Children
- Revisiting the Three ‘R’s in Order to Realize Children’s Educational Rights Relationships, Resources, and Redress
- Poverty and Children’s Rights
- Situating the Rights versus Culture Binary within the Context of Colonial History in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Climate Change and Children’s Rights
- Taking Part, Joining in, and Being Heard?: Ethnographic Explorations of Children’s Participation
- National Human Rights Institutions for Children
- Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-Based Discrimination
- Embracing Our LGBTQ Youth: A Child Rights Paradigm
- Indigenous Children
- Children with Disabilities: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges Ahead
- Independent Children
- Trafficked Children
- Children in Armed Conflict
- Working Toward Recognition of the Rights of Migrant and Refugee Children
- Human Rights Education: Education about Children’s Rights
- Children’s Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- Index
