Correct and timely information - less crime

One of the most significant obstacles to effective prevention is lack of information and ineffective communication among the involved services as well as the weak link with the community.

Estonian Juvenile and Restorative Justice System

In modern legislation, children are viewed as a vulnerable group and several measures have been introduced to protect the children due to the special needs arising from the specific nature of their development. This also applies to the Juvenile and Restorative Justice System in Estonia.

Healing without the bars

The whole community is the winner in the event of successful conciliation, because the number of prisoners decreases and there is an economy of taxpayers’ funds.

Restorative Justice vs. Juvenile Justice: The Case of Lithuania

In Lithuania an issue of implementing the restorative justice model into legal system is raised during the last several years very often, although the steps in making ideas into action are still quite reserved. Today restorative justice in criminal cases is not introduced into Lithuanian juven...

Restorative Justice in the Ukraine

We still consider the preservation of the value basis of restorative justice, ensuring the development of practice in line with the wider understanding of principles of RJ and an attentive and careful attitude to cultural traditions and roots of cooperation and restorative approaches to the devel...

Restorative Justice vs Juvenile Delinquency: The Baltic States in European Dimension

War and vacation in Europe

The unified position taken by the Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine has marked out a new form of cooperation that is dictated by the actual events. This can be seen as a good starting point for coming together to seek out ways of reducing the split between European countries, and convincing th...

Learning to welcome. The integration of imigrants in Latvia and Poland

Year: 2008Author: Dace Akule, Rita Kasa, Iveta Kesane, Thomas Huddleston, Mirosław Bieniecki, Piotr KaźmierkiewiczInstitution: PROVIDUSLanguage: English

EU should make Georgia’s early membership of NATO a top priority, and press for international, impartial peacekeeping forces in South Ossetia and Abkhazia

Beyond EU Enlargement-Creating a United European Commonwealth

Year: 2008Author: John PalmerOrganisation: Sussex European Institute, University of SussexLanguage: English