Drepturile omului & Reforma in justitie

The scope and the venue of the project:
The project intends to encourage the sentence of the young offenders involved in criminal cases with complementary measures, pronounced by the judges in the District Courts in Bucharest, through acknowledging both the representatives of the judicial system and the community about the importance of appliance the complementary measures instead of the jail sentence, as more efficient ways of reducing the backsliding and facilitating the social reinsertion for the young offenders

Activities

• To create a reflection and action group composed by the representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Superior Council of Magistracy, Probation Directorate, the Court of Bucharest, the District Courts of Bucharest, the Prosecutor’s Office, Police, Directorates of the Child Protection (DPC), NGOs etc
• To carry out a participative research on the opinions and attitudes of the community as regards to under age and young offenders
• To exchange experience between the experts who are working in the field of justice for under age persons in Romania and Belgium
• To draw up information materials regarding the complementary measures comprising details on the implementation of the pilot project “Research-Action on the Appliance of the Complementary Measures”
• To set up an institutional network for putting on the complementary measures
• Raising awareness campaignTo organize a socio-cultural event “The Week of the Complementary Measures” within the public institutions involved in the judicial system for under age persons and other related public spaces
• To organize an international press conference on using the complementary measures and their function within the judicial system in different European countries