COMPARATIVE LAW REVIEW- ALTERNATIVE SANCTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS
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https://doi.org/10.63177/mns.2025.18Keywords:
juvenile offenders, best interests of the child, community sanctions, comparative law.Abstract
In recent decades, the response to juvenile delinquency has focused on the application of non-institutional sanctions, through which the educational and upbringing needs of juveniles should be primarily met. Although, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international documents, primary importance is given to the best interests of the child and the reintegration, it is noticeable that adequate solutions are also sought for a smaller number of juveniles who commit serious crimes, and especially violent ones. With this in mind, the authors sought to examine the normative frameworks of several European countries relating to the application of non-institutional sanctions and sanctions applied in the community, with the aim of identifying certain similar tendencies or differences. Therefore, the normative-logical method and the method of content analysis were applied. The paper concludes with recommendations that could have an impact on the juvenile justice in Serbia.
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