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The Leuven Declaration on the Advisability of Promoting the Restorative Approach to Juvenile Crime

International Conference on Restorative Justice
June 4, 2015

Source: (1997) Made on the occasion of the First International Conference on Restorative Justice for Juveniles – Potentialities, Risks and Problems for Research, Leuven, Belgium, May 12 – 14, 1997.

Given that much of the restorative justice experimentation has been carried out with juveniles and given that public opinion as well as legal authorities generally accept more openness in their reaction to juvenile offending, the participating restorative justice advocates formulated ten propositions to advance in this conference statement for the restorative response to juvenile offending

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