COUNCIL OF EUROPE
COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS
RECOMMENDATION No. R (87) 20
ON SOCIAL REACTIONS TO JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Considering that young people are developing beings and in consequence all measures taken in their respect should have an educational character;
Convinced that the penal system for minors should continue to be characterised by its objective of education and social integration and that it should as far as possible abolish imprisonment for minors;
4. to ensuring that minors are tried more rapidly, avoiding undue delay, so as to ensure effective educational action;
11. to ensuring that interventions in respect of juvenile delinquents are sought preferably in the minors' natural environment, respect their right to education and their personality and foster their personal development;
14. with the aim of gradually abandoning recourse to detention and increasing the number of alternative measures, to giving preference to those which allow greater opportunities for social integration through education, vocational training as well as through the use of leisure or other activities;
15. - are intended to cope with the persistence of delinquent behaviour in the minor by improving his capacities for social adjustment by means of intensive educational action (including "intensive intermediary treatment");
- entail community work suited to the minor's age and educational needs;
16. - to providing both education and vocational training for young prisoners, preferably in conjunction with the community, or any other measure which may assist reinsertion in society;
- to providing educational support after release and possible assistance for the social rehabilitation of the minors;
17. to reviewing, if necessary, their legislation on young adult delinquents, so that the relevant courts also have the opportunity of passing sentences which are educational in nature and foster social integration, regard being had for the personalities of the offenders;
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