11/03/2011 Standing Committee
Retribution and punishment should take second place to social measures for the education and rehabilitation of young offenders, PACE Standing Committee said today.
In a resolution based on a report by Marietta Karamanli (France, SOC), PACE said depriving children and young people of liberty should be a last resort. “A child or young person – as a developing, learning human being – is still open to positive socialising influences,” the parliamentarians said, and should not be treated in the same way as adult offenders.