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Fact sheets on the Child Justice Bill
Archive documentThis page is part of the document archive that this domain has carried since the campaign for South Africa’s Child Justice Act. It is reproduced as a historical record: the dates, figures and contact details in it belong to the period it was written in and are not current. It is not legal advice, and it is not published on behalf of the Child Justice Alliance.
Fact Sheets On the Child Justice Bill [B49 of 2002]
Download specific topics in the Bill
- What is the idea behind child justice courts and one-stop centres? Do we have any at present?
- What are the issues around the age of a child?
- How much consultation has gone into the Child Justice Bill?
- How does the Bill contribute to preventing crime? How will it make us safer?
- What does the Child Justice Bill say about legal representation?
- What is a family group conference?
- What does the Child Justice Bill expect of the police?
- What is a preliminary inquiry?
- What is ‘restorative justice’? Is it a foreign concept? Will it work in South Africa?
- Sending children to prison – a measure of last resort for the shortest possible period
- What are the different types of sentences envisaged by the Child Justice Bill?
- What about child sex offenders? What proportion of sexual offences are committed by children in South Africa?
- What is assessment?
- What is expungement and why is it necessary?
- What is the role of probation officers ?
- Why do we need the Child Justice Bill?
Download the zipped format of all the above-mentioned topics