What are the specific natures or similarities of the juvenile justice system regarding other European systems?
A.-The system produced by the 1999 Reform holds an important peculiarity regarding other European systems: it gives less important to the offence than to the necessity of the minors education in fundamental values of the community, which are protected by the penal code. The evidence of the offence on itself is indeed not enough to activate the educational protection intervention. An educational protection measure can only be applied if the minors need for education has been proven, not only at the moment they commit the offence but also while the measure is being applied. We are not talking about scholar education or professional training as before in previous laws, according to the protection model; it is about discovering and identifying, through the circumstances in which the offence was committed, the serious absence of values. Without them, the minor can not be nor become a free and responsible citizen. The educational protection measure has got to be chosen depending on the casua
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