Children’s Participation in the Justice System

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Child-friendly Justice and Procedural Safeguards For Children in Criminal Proceedings: New Momentum for Children in Conflict with the Law?

“…Research projects include comparative analyses of domestic justice systems on how these accommodate children, 82 and theoretical analyses of the concept of child-friendly justice in relation to other concepts, such as access to justice for children more broadly, 83 or child-sensitive proceedings for children as victims and/or witnesses, 84 and in relation to children's rights to be heard and to participation. 85 There is also an increasing number of domestic studies on whether and how child-friendly justice principles manifest themselves in domestic legal systems, both in juvenile justice and in other parts of these legal systems. 86 Although child-friendly justice as a conceptual framework may not always be explicitly addressed or recognised, many studies conducted at the domestic level contribute to the growing body of knowledge around children's participation in domestic formal and informal legal proceedings.…”