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"Mr President, Commissioner, the European Parliament is today opening the file of juvenile delinquency, a file which is constantly swelling with unsolved cases, with juvenile perpetrators and victims, with a society which is concerned and which is often stigmatised and reacts in a fragmentary manner, either by seeing these young people as a bad sign of our times and calling for them to be punished as an example or demonstrating indifference as to their fate or by highlighting the causes and the importance of their reintegration into society.
It is extremely difficult to identify the exact reasons for delinquent behaviour in a juvenile, as each specific act is expressed in the context of a complex process of their socialisation and social control. Nevertheless, it is possible to make two reliable ascertainments. Firstly, it is in no way the case that juvenile delinquency is a disease attributable to physical, intellectual or mental abnormalities and, secondly, in order to analyse the behaviour of juveniles, delinquent or not, we must examine the environment in which the juvenile's character is developing: family, school, friends and social setting. In addition, however, in this day and age, there are also external factors in their lives, such as the media, technology and especially the Internet, which catapult them into the adult world, often causing an aggressive reaction.
The purpose of our report is not so much to intervene in the national courts and penal systems, as our committee has no competence in this sector and the role of the European Parliament is very limited here. Our objective is to highlight the best practices applied at national level, to strengthen the exchange of information and experiences, to network the competent agencies and to give them institutional, organisational and financial support. The experience acquired in each Member State is an important indicator for the other Member States of the fact that innovative and alternative methods can work more effectively than traditional methods of locking up juvenile offenders and treating them like criminals.
An integrated strategy is needed at national and European level which combines measures around three pillars: preventive mechanisms, social integration mechanisms for juveniles and extrajudicial and judicial intervention mechanisms. However, in designing and implementing an integrated national and Community policy, it is of decisive importance to have direct social participation by all the relevant agencies, the regional and local authorities, the school community, the family, non-governmental agencies and the media. As detailed in the individual paragraphs in the report, the European Commission must set the following immediate priorities:
Firstly, it must set up a European Juvenile Delinquency Observatory based on national observatories.
Secondly, a European telephone hotline for children must be set up.
Thirdly, basic policies must be presented focussing directly on disseminating information and promoting the integration of preventive measures into existing Community programmes and on publishing a study in cooperation with a network of national exports leading to a Commission communication and the drafting of an integrated framework programme to combat juvenile delinquency, to be funded under a new heading in the Community budget.
The basic actions in the programme could include action to disseminate best prevention practices, measuring and analysing systems developed for the treatment of juvenile offenders, such as restorative justice, developing a European model for the integration and social welfare of young people and juvenile delinquents and, most important, networking the responsible services of the local and regional authorities.
Commissioner, knowing your political awareness of and proposals for child rights, it would be advisable for you to include this concern of the European Parliament in a European plan for young people. They say that bad children are usually sad children. Let us give them reason to smile."@en1
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