Book presentation

«Justiça Juvenil: A lei, os tribunais e a (in)visibilidade do crime feminino» | Eds.: João Pedroso, Patrícia Branco and Paula Casaleiro

July 3, 2017, 17h00

CEJ/Centro De Estudos Judiciários (Largo do Limoeiro, Lisbon)

Overview

Presented by: Paulo Guerra (Appelate Judge/Deputy Director of CEJ). Speakers: Anabela Miranda Rodrigues and João Pedroso.

This book was edited under the research project “Desvio e crime juvenil no feminino: da invisibilidade dos factos, seleção e percursos no sistema judicial” and brings together contributions from the project consultants’ national and international authors.

The first part centres on an interdisciplinary and integrated debate regarding juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, and the second part presents the research project’s results.

The book is organised from the general (theory) to the particular (empyria) and from the European to the national. Firstly, chapters 1 and 2, by Yves Cartuyvels and Anabela Miranda Rodrigues, offer a legal framework, the first with a more general and European perspective, mapping the main tendencies of legal transformation in this matter, and the second with a national perspective and contextualization of the Educational Tutelary Law. Subsequently, chapters 3 to 4, by Vera Duarte and Maria João Leote de Carvalho, present a theoretical discussion of the gender perspective in the context of juvenile justice.

Finally, chapters 5 and 6, by Jacinthe Mazzocchetti and João Pedroso, Paula Casaleiro and Patrícia Branco, offer an empirical perspective through two case studies, the last chapter being the presentation of the results of the research project conducted by the editors of this volume.


Topics addressed and their authors:

  • Criminal justice for minors in Europe: origins and perspectives Yves Cartuyvels
  • The Educational Tutelary Law - between the past and the future Anabela Miranda Rodrigues
  • What about girls? The importance of gender in intervention in the Juvenile Justice System. Theoretical Concerns, Practical Challenges Vera Duarte
  • Gender, delinquency and juvenile justice: dynamics, risks and challenges Maria João Leote de Carvalho
  • Girls in danger, dangerous girls? Jacinthe Mazzocchetti
  • Deviance and juvenile crime in the feminine: on the invisibility of facts, selection and routes in the judicial system.