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Juvenile justice in South Africa. Adam Cooper. Child justice policies in South Africa – both historically and currently – are inextricably linked to the dominant ideologies within which these policies have emerged.
It soon became clear that the issue of pre-trial incarceration of juvenile offenders was to constitute the first public backlash against the new government. The prohibition on the detention of children in prison became linked, in the public mind, with the early signs of a rising crime rate.
This article will explore the idea that the over-riding theme of South Africa's political transition was one of reconciliation, and that this political context made it easier to promote restorative justice as a fundamental principle of juvenile justice reform.
This chapter traces the ideological and operational impact of the transition from apartheid to democratic rule in South African juvenile courts. It demonstrates that the child-saving movement had its followers in colonial South Africa. It recounts valiant reform efforts in the Union era, followed by the bleak downward spiral of the apartheid years.
At the dawn of a new South Africa, there will for the first time be a Juvenile Justice system. Child advocates across South Africa have been working in tandem with the South African government to create a workable Juvenile Justice system.
22 Μαΐ 2023 · Abstract. Formalizing child justice in South Africa provides an enabling legislative context for the practice of restorative justice as well as the diversion of youth offenders to innovative and inclusive processes such as home-based supervision and family group conferencing.
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