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11 - Child-Friendly Justice

from Part II - Even Lawyers Were Children Once

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Michael Freeman
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University College London
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Although it has only become a theme of children’s rights very recently, child-friendly justice has motivated the movement for children’s rights since the emergence of the child-saving movement in the mid-1880s: thus, there developed an institutional structure to target juvenile crime, the juvenile court in 1908, approved schools, borstal. It was not until 1907 that Parliament recognised the concept and value of probation (a terse summary of these developments can be found in Freeman 1983: 66–9). Most discussion even today centres on making criminal justice child-friendly, but there are now similar concerns in family dispute processes and elsewhere. In Wales there is even discussion of a ‘play-friendly’ Wales (Welsh Government, 2012).

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A Magna Carta for Children?
Rethinking Children's Rights
, pp. 282 - 294
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Child-Friendly Justice
  • Michael Freeman, University College London
  • Book: A Magna Carta for Children?
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316591468.012
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  • Michael Freeman, University College London
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  • Child-Friendly Justice
  • Michael Freeman, University College London
  • Book: A Magna Carta for Children?
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316591468.012
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