Back on Track: Making Community-Based Diversion Work for Children in Conflict with the Law
A Documentation of FREELAVA’s Experience in Cebu City, Philippines
Save the Children UK, 2005
This book documents the experiences, achievements, limitations and recommendations of FREELAVA, a local non-governmental organisation, in piloting a community-based diversion programme in Cebu City, the Philippines. The diversion programme seeks to prevent children who commit minor offences or violate local ordinances from entering the formal justice system through mediation.
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Guidelines for a Community-Based Diversion and Prevention Programme for Children in Conflict with the Law
Save the Children UK and the Free Rehabilitation, Economic, Education and Legal Assistance Volunteers Association (FREELAVA), 2005
A companion to Back on Track, these guidelines are developed based on FREELAVA’s experiences in piloting a community-based diversion programme in Cebu City, the Philippines. The guidelines aim to clarify the basic concepts of diversion and elaborate on the philosophy of Restorative Justice discussed within a child rights framework. It also proposes standard processes and procedures for implementing a community-based diversion and prevention programme for children in conflict with the law.
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Breaking Rules
Save the Children UK, 2004
This book presents the key findings and recommendations of research studies in three cities in the Philippines—Metro Manila, Cebu City, and Davao City – on the profile of children in conflict with the law, as well as the situation and experiences of children who go through the formal justice system. The book puts forward recommendations for more effective programme implementation, inter-agency coordination and advocacy addressed to the five pillars of justice—the community, law enforcement, prosecution, the courts, and correction.
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Children in Conflict with the Law: Profile and experience with the juvenile justice process
Felisa U. Etemadi, Ching Li Ye, and Cresencio Bermudez, Jr., Save the Children UK, 2004
The study provides a profile of children in conflict with the law (CICL) in major cities in Cebu Province and their experiences with the juvenile justice process based on empirical qualitative and quantitative data collected from January 1999 to mid-2002. The situational analysis of CICL in the cities of Cebu, Mandaue, Lapulapu, and Talisay, as well as the Municipality of Consolacion, is presented within the context of the Five Pillars of Justice in the Philippines.
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Research on the situation of children in conflict with the law in selected Metro Manila cities
Save the Children UK, 2004
The study describes the situation of children in conflict with the law, the justice system, the typical processes that these children go through, their experiences particularly in terms of how their rights are protected as they undergo these processes, and the effects of the experience on the children and their families. The research areas include selected Metro Manila cities.
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Understanding Children in Conflict with the Law: A study of the situation of children in conflict with the law in Davao
Save the Children UK, 2004
The study provides a profile of children in conflict with the law and describes the children’s experiences, the typical processes they go through within the criminal justice system, and the effects of the experience on the children and their families. The research areas include the cities of Tagum and Davao, and the municipality of Nabunturan in Compostela Valley–all in Southern Mindanao.
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Indigenous Administration of Justice and Its Impact on the Protection of Children: The Tagabawa-Bagobo and Subanen experience
Save the Children UK, 2006
This case study shows how two indigenous communities in Northern and Southern Mindanao handle offences committed by indigenous children and young adults. Conducted in two communities that have experiences of assimilation to and integration with lowland political structures, the study offers information on indigenous justice systems that can contribute to the development of a more systematic approach in diverting children in conflict with the law.
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