Annexure E: Criminal Capacity Check List (pages 61-62) is in English. The Afrikaans or Xhosa version of this document is also available on request / The aim of this explorative and descriptive study was to establish if criminologists could assist in the criminal capacity assessment of children in conflict with the law. A qualitative approach was utilised in order to obtain an in-depth understanding of the current criminal capacity assessment process and the role players involved in the process. Data were collected by means of a semi-structured interview schedule. Individual and focus group interviews were conducted with child justice practitioners. Purposive sampling was employed and data were analysed according to the methods of Rabiee as well as Morse and Field. The findings of this study indicate that the current one-dimensional medico-legal assessment approach is not in the best interest of the child. A shortage of human resources, ineffective assessment tools, inadequate training of role players, and operational problems in the criminal capacity assessment process, are all factors that hamper a successful child-centred approach. A multi-disciplinary approach was found to be the most suitable approach to assess children in conflict with the law. It was concluded that professionals from disciplines such as social work, criminology, probation work, psychology and psychiatry should form part of the multi-disciplinary criminal capacity assessment team. The important role that criminologists can play as part of this team was acknowledged in this study. It was furthermore established that the role and function of criminologists, as well as the study field of criminology, are still unfamiliar to various practitioners in the human sciences professions. Criminologists are also still regarded as crime researchers with limited practical applications in areas of the Criminal Justice System. / Criminology and Security Science / M.A. (Criminology)

The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the Western Cape Province's non-governmental child diversion programme compliance with the Minimum Programme Outcomes Standards developed by the Department of Social Development for programme accreditation. The Minimum Standards focus on optimal diversion outcomes for children in conflict with the law and were designed to ensure good diversion practice. The juvenile justice system has determined child diversion as a rehabilitative and cost-effective alternative justice option, positively contributing towards the curbing of re-offending among child offenders. The research process was guided by a mixed method approach and utilised a structured questionnaire as well as comments and information stated by the respondents during the interview process. The questionnaire was applied to a representative sample of non-governmental diversion programme facilitators of the various diversion programme types to determine the level of programme compliance and to evaluate the implications that the results might hold for programme participants, service providers, as well as for the accreditation process. The results of the study revealed a high level of Minimum Programme Outcomes Standards compliance, with an average of 83%. These results indicate that, in general, the programmes provided by non-governmental diversion service providers are complying with the Minimum Standards and are thereby ensuring good diversion practice. This should positively influence their eligibility for programme accreditation by the Department of Social Development. At the same time. the results of the study have pointed towards other challenges. which were evaluated and discussed. / Criminology / Criminology and Security Science / M.A. (Criminology)

Le 1er avril 2003, l’entrée en vigueur de la Loi sur le système de justice pénale pour les adolescents (LSJPA) a fourni aux policiers canadiens de nouveaux outils pour procéder à des interventions non-judiciaires auprès d’adolescents contrevenants. Dorénavant, les policiers détiennent le pouvoir officiel d’imposer des mesures extrajudiciaires aux adolescents interpellés pour avoir commis des infractions plutôt que de procéder à leur arrestation formelle. La présente étude vise à déterminer quelles caractéristiques des adolescents et circonstances des infractions ont un impact significatif sur les décisions des policiers d’imposer ces mesures plutôt que de procéder à des arrestations. Les résultats sont basés sur trois échantillons de participations criminelles juvéniles enregistrées par un corps policier canadien entre 2003 et 2010: le premier composé d’infractions contre la personne (n= 3 482), le second, d’infractions contre la propriété (n= 8 230) et le troisième, d’autres crimes (n= 1 974). L’analyse de régression logistique multiniveaux a été utilisée pour déterminer les facteurs — tels que le sexe, l’âge et les contacts antérieurs avec la justice des adolescents ainsi que la localisation dans le temps et l’espace de l’infraction — ont un impact significatif sur le pouvoir discrétionnaire des policiers. Certains facteurs ont une influence universelle d’une catégorie de crime à l’autre, tandis que d’autres ont un impact spécifique selon le type d’infraction commise. / Since April 3rd 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) provides police officers with new tools to divert canadian juvenile offenders. Specifically, police officers can officially impose extrajudicial measures to juvenile delinquents instead of handing them directly to the justice system. The current study seeks to determine which characteristics of the offenders and circumstances of the offences significantly impact the decisions of officers to divert cases instead of sending them to the formal justice system. The results are based on three samples of juvenile offence participations recorded by a Canadian police force between 2003 and 2010: the first composed of violent offences (n= 3,482), the second, of proprety offences (n= 8,230) and the third, of other offences (n= 1,974). Multilevel logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine which factors - for example, gender, age, and criminal record of the offender as well as location in time and space of the offence - have a significant impact on police decision-making for each category of offence. Although some factors have similar significant impacts regardless of offence type, others have a differential influence depending on the type of crime that was committed.

La justice criminelle devrait être adaptée aux mineurs et répondre à leurs besoins spécifiques selon le droit international des droits de l’enfant. Or, ce mémoire démontre que les droits internationaux de l’enfant compris dans les traités et autres instruments de droit international ne sont pas respectés au Canada. Le non-respect des droits de l’enfant en matière de justice juvénile se traduit par une violation des protections internationales fondamentales contre la discrimination raciale. Afin d’étudier les répercussions de la violation des droits du mineur dans la justice criminelle sur les jeunes racialisés, l’auteure adopte un cadre théorique critique de la race. La loi canadienne sur le système de justice pénale (LSJPA) est évaluée à la lumière des instruments internationaux de protection des droits de la personne selon quatre thèmes, soit (1) l’accent de la justice juvénile canadienne mis sur la répression, (2) l’accès entravé aux mesures et sanctions extrajudiciaires, (3) l’emploi abusif du placement sous garde ainsi que (4) l’assujettissement à une peine adulte. Chacun de ces quatre thèmes aborde la question de la discrimination raciale telle que vécue par les Autochtones et jeunes d’appartenance aux minorités visibles. / According to Children’s international rights, the youth criminal justice system should be adapted to minors and address their special needs. However, this thesis examines the extend to which Canada does not fulfill its international obligations regarding international children’s rights in juvenile justice. Violation of these rights induce the infrigement of internationally recognized fundamental protections against racial discrimination. In order to analyse the consequences for racialized youth of such violation of international rights, the author applies a critical race theoretical frame. This thesis compares the Canadian Youth criminal justice Act (YCJA) with international human rights emanating from ratified treaties and other international agreements. The evaluation is divided among four themes : the emphasis of the present act on the repressive justice model, the impeded access to extrajudicial measures and sanctions, the abusive use of detention, and the transfer to adult court. Each of these four themes address questions of racial discrimination as lived by Aboriginal youth and visible minorities.

L’effectivité des droits de l’enfant en Côte d’Ivoire est soumise à une tension constante et fragile entre les normes internationales qui proclament ces droits et assurent leur garantie et les réalités locales qui sont celles d’un pays en développement. De surcroît, la Côte d’Ivoire a rencontré depuis plus de dix ans de graves problèmes d’instabilité politique et sociale à cause d’une crise armée qui a déstabilisé les régimes de protection dans tous les domaines où ceux-ci existaient auparavant. La situation de la protection des droits de l’enfant, essentiellement d’origine internationale et placée à ce titre, sous un contrôle international pouvait-elle échapper à ce contexte ? La thèse montre que l’intégration dans le droit national ivoirien des normes internationales de protection à travers une large participation de la Côte d’Ivoire à la plupart des instruments protégeant tant les droits de l’Homme en général que les droits de l’enfant en particulier, de même que la traduction nationale de ces droits selon les exigences constitutionnelles dans une importante législation pourraient donner une image d’effectivité. Cette image est cependant fausse. L’effectivité de ces droits, lorsqu’elle est mise à l’épreuve des réalités du pays, tombe sous le poids des manifestations des violations aussi diverses qu’inacceptables. C’est pourquoi des mesures pour une effectivité améliorée sont préconisées. Leur mise en œuvre pourrait garantir un meilleur avenir à tous les enfants de la Côte d’Ivoire. / The effectiveness of children’s rights in Ivory Coast is subject to a constant and fragile tension between the international standards that proclaim these rights and guarantee them and the local realities that are those of a developing country. In addition, for more than ten years, Ivory Coast has faced serious problems of political and social instability because of an armed crisis that has destabilized protection regimes in all areas where they previously existed. Could the situation of the protection of the rights of the child, mainly from international origin and placed under international control, escape this context? The thesis shows that the integration into Ivorian national law of international standards of protection through a wide participation of Ivory Coast in most instruments protecting both human rights in general and the rights of the child in particular, just as the national translation of these rights according to constitutional requirements into important legislation could give a sense of effectiveness. However, this feeling is fake. The effectiveness of these rights, when challenged by the realities of the country, falls under the weight of manifestations of violations as diverse as unacceptable. This is why measures for improved effectiveness are recommended. Their implementation could guarantee a better future for all children in Ivory Coast.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:17:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese de doutorado.pdf: 1457977 bytes, checksum: 57ee49ac005bdd05c05c9c790bbe2a41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-06-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present thesis: The socio-penal control of adolescents on judicial process in São Paulo : between protection and punishment, is aimed at the examination of the effective results of the socio-penal control of adolescents involved in infringement process. The references selected were the Children and Adolescents Statute and the Juvenile Justice Administration System in São Paulo. The field for investigation chosen was the examination of the legislation (Minors Code 1979, Children and Adolescent Statute and Penal Code) and an analysis of 42 lawsuit papers filed during 2000, at the Forum of Special Jurisdiction for Infancy and Youthful of São Paulo State Justice Court. The results obtained indicate that: a) in the Minors Code 1979, there was already an intention of socio-penal control of adolescents involved in infringement process, but its materialization was instituted by ECA; b) regarding the Minors Code, many processes of discontinuity and continuity happened with ECA, remaining still the socio-historical of capitalist society; c) ECA owns Penal Code awards to normalize the procedures of infringement acts perpetrate by adolescents; d) the administration systems of juvenile justice promotes injustice instead of justice and also facilitate the occurrence of a perverse cycle of adolescents incrimination; e) the paradigm of integral protection conceived adolescents as subjects of rights and duties, constituting the juvenile penal right, that besides establishing the adolescent right to be summoned to court , established also his possibility to be deprived of liberty and ,therefore, to suffer a penal punishment; f) the juvenile penal right was converted into minors penal right, when it did not implement the quality of processual security of a due legal process; g) there is a tutelary and operating conception of socio-educative measures for the socio-juridical practices; h) ECA sociable horizon is regulated by the plan of a conservative modernization. Such assemblage of elements drive us to a (in) conclusion that pointed over and above the juvenile socio-penal control / A tese O controle sócio-penal dos adolescentes com processos judiciais em São Paulo: entre a proteção e a punição, teve como objetivo examinar a efetivação do controle sócio-penal dos adolescentes que respondem por processos infracionais. Adotou por referência o Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente e o Sistema de Administração da (in) Justiça Juvenil em São Paulo. Tomou-se como campo de investigação o exame das leis Código de Menores de 1979, Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente e Código Penal e a análise de 42 autos processuais arquivados, no ano de 2000, no Foro das Varas Especiais da Infância e da Juventude do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo. Os resultados alcançados revelam que: a) no Código de Menores de 1979, já existia uma intenção de controle sócio-penal dos adolescentes autores de ato infracional, mas sua materialização foi instituída no ECA, com fundamentos no devido processo legal; b) no ECA, em relação ao Código de Menores de 1979, ocorreram processos de descontinuidades e de continuidades, permanecendo os determinantes sócio-históricos da sociedade capitalista; c) o ECA tem aporte do Código Penal para normatizar os procedimentos do ato infracional praticado por adolescentes; d) o sistema de administração da justiça juvenil promove injustiça ao invés de justiça bem como possibilita a efetivação de um ciclo perverso de criminalização dos adolescentes; e) o paradigma da proteção integral concebeu o adolescente como sujeito de direitos e de deveres, instituindo o direito penal juvenil. A partir deste, o adolescente pode ser responsabilizado penalmente; f) o direito penal juvenil foi transformado em direito penal de menores, quando não implementou com qualidade as garantias processuais do devido processo legal; g) existe uma concepção tutelar e operacional das medidas sócio-educativas nas práticas sócio-juridicas; h) o horizonte societário do ECA está pautado no plano da modernização conservadora. Este conjunto de elementos levou a uma (in) conclusão, que apontou para além do controle sócio-penal juvenil

In this project the various International Instruments, namely the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, 1989, the Beijing Rules and the African Charter, relating to the protection of the rights of children were discussed focusing on the rights of children in conflict with the law. The important guidelines regarding the establishment of a minimum age for criminal capacity, detention, legal representation, diversion, sentencing, pre-sentence reports, child justice Courts and the confidentiality of children’s Court hearings were highlighted. The current positions in South African law with regard to these issues were discussed and the proposed provisions in the Child Justice Bill, 49 of 2002 were furnished. The research included all the magistrates in Gauteng that were in service during February 2003 and March 2003. Throughout the project the important role that forensic criminologists can and should play in a juvenile justice system was highlighted. / Criminology and Security Science / M.A.

The aim of this explorative study is to establish if psychiatric disorders influence the criminal capacity of child offenders. A qualitative approach was adopted in the study to develop an in-depth understanding of the issues pertaining to criminal capacity assessments for child offenders with psychiatric disorders. The risks associated with various psychiatric disorders in relation to childhood criminality, and the methods that are used to deal with child offenders who suffer from psychiatric disorders, were also explored. The data collection tool for this study was a semi-structured interview schedule. Telephonic and face-to-face interviews were conducted with child justice and mental health experts from four provinces in South Africa, namely, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape. These experts included psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, academic professors of law, a criminologist and an advocate. Snowball sampling was employed and although this is a pure qualitative study, the open coding, axial coding and selective coding process from the grounded theory was applied to analyse and interpret the data. The findings from this study indicate that psychiatric disorders are a risk factor associated with the causation of criminal behaviour. A high prevalence of psychiatric disorders, such as intellectual disability, learning disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, were generally found in children in conflict with the law. The influence and consequences of these psychiatric disorders, in conjunction with environmental and societal factors, were found to influence criminal behaviour and were highlighted as factors that ought to be taken into consideration when determining the criminal capacity of a child who is in conflict with the law. Findings from the study identified that adequate recognition was not granted to the influence of a psychiatric disorder in the assessment of a child‟s criminal capacity. It was established that, in the criminal capacity assessment, the emphasis should not be on the psychiatric disorder per se, but on the effect that the disorder and associated symptoms may have on the child‟s ability to distinguish between the wrongfulness of their actions and to act in accordance with this understanding. Operational challenges and ambiguities identified in the legislative framework pertaining to child offenders with psychiatric disorders were found to negatively influence criminal capacity assessments for children in conflict with the law. The lack of services available to child offenders with psychiatric disorders, as well as child offenders without psychiatric disorders, was found to hamper the best interest of the children in conflict with the law. Lastly, legislative and service recommendations for good practice to deal with child offenders with psychiatric disorder were identified by the experts. / Criminology and Security Science / M.A. (Criminology)

In this project the various International Instruments, namely the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child; 1989, the Beijing Rules and the African Charter, relating to the guidelines of the establishment of a minimum age for criminal capacity are furnished. The developments regarding the issue of criminal capacity since 1998 in Australia, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong are highlighted. The historical position and the current position in South African law with regard to the issue of criminal capacity are discussed as well as the implementation thereof by our courts. The statistics on children under 14 years in prison over the past five years are furnished. The introduction of the Child Justice Bill, 2002 by Parliament and the deliberations following the introduction, focusing on the issue of criminal capacity is highlighted. The proposed provisions of the Child Justice Bill, 49 of 2002 codifying the present common law presumptions and the raising of the minimum age for criminal capacity are furnished. The evaluation of criminal capacity and the important factors to be assessed are discussed as provided for in the Child Justice Bill, 49 of 2002. A practical illustration of a case where the criminal capacity of a child offender was considered by the court is, discussed and other important developmental factors that should also be taken into consideration by the court are identified and discussed. Important issues relating to criminal capacity, namely, time and number of assessments, testimonial competency of the child offender, evolving capacities and age determination are discussed and possible problems identified and some solutions offered. The research included an 11-question questionnaire to various professionals working in field of child justice regarding the issue of criminal capacity and the evaluation thereof. / Criminal and Procedural law / D.Litt. et Phil. (Criminology)

Many young people in South Africa are involved in crime, especially violent crime. This statement is supported by statistics obtained from the Annual Report (2013:37) of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services which indicates that 26 282 young people were serving sentences in South African Correctional Centres at the end of the 2012/13 financial year. This annual report of the Department of Correctional Services (2013:13) indicates that at the time of the report, 11 000 offenders were sentenced to life imprisonment and a third of them were youth offenders. The majority of these young people have to be transferred from juvenile facilities to adult centres to continue their incarceration when they turn twenty one. This transition holds a number of challenges, both for these young people and the Department of Correctional Services. Young people are confronted with the reality of possibly falling victim to HIV/AIDS, gangs, sodomy and rape in overcrowded, adult correctional facilities. The Department of Correctional Services encounters problems in assisting these young people to adjust to this transition and the protection of these young people from assault and abuse by older inmates remains an institutional concern. The main aims of this research are to examine: the age at which juveniles are transferred to adult correctional centre to continue with their sentences; the factors taken into account before transfer; the challenges faced by youth offenders in adult correctional centre; and the needs of youth offenders in adult correctional facility. The study addresses the following questions: • At what age are youth offenders transferred to adult correctional centre? • What other factors besides age are considered before youth are transferred to adult correctional centre? • Are there any preparatory measures in place to assist youth with the transfer? • Are there any induction programmes available to assist youth adjusting in adult correctional facility? • What are the challenges faced by youth in adult facility? • What are the needs of youth offenders in adult facility? / Criminology and Security Science / M.A. (Criminology)