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- Title
JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN TURKEY AND CHILDREN IN REFORMATORY CENTERS.
- Authors
ÇOBAN, Sevgi
- Abstract
The purpose of the study is to review the new reparative juvenile justice system and discuss what could its procedures and principles bring convicted children to enhance their living conditions. In line with the literature review on the present situation of the juvenile justice system after 2005, a questionnaire on family characteristics, school and work status, substance use and the prosecution and incarceration processes was conducted among 120 children in reformatory institutions in Turkey in 2010-2011. The results of the survey indicated that children's rights in criminal justice process are protected by the law, however as indicated in the literature review; in practice, there are many problems related to the prosecution process, period of detention, the structure of juvenile courts and penal institutions. Another conclusion is that in the functioning of the juvenile justice system, due to the failure in ameliorating children's living conditions -a failure arising from the lack of policies regarding the fields such as family, education and work, substance use, reparative justice principle cannot be put into practice.
- Subjects
TURKEY; JUVENILE justice administration; JUVENILE delinquency; CHILDREN'S rights; CRIMINAL justice system; JUSTICE administration
- Publication
Hacettepe University Journal of Turkish Studies / HÜTAD Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Arastirmalari Dergisi, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 22, p99
- ISSN
1305-5992
- Publication type
Article