CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Kariuki, Joan Chausiku |
|---|---|
| Title | TOWARDS A CHILD RIGHTS APPROACH; A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM PROCESS IN KENYA AND SOUTH AFRICA |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on protecting and promoting the rights of the child within the child justice system in a manner that enhances their rehabilitation while ensuring their reintegration back in society. This thesis argues that the UNCRC and other legal instruments provide a new rights-based approach of dealing with child offenders that is disengaged from the whole debate between justice and welfare model; the child rights approach. The child rights approach has been defined as an approach that seeks to ensure that a system ‘is one that is consistent with international principles such as those contained in the UNCRC’. The thesis involves a comparative analysis of the juvenile justice systems in Kenya and South Africa to determine whether the reform processes taking place in both countries in the child justice sectors work to promote and protect the rights of the child offender within the criminal justice system while ensuring their rehabilitation and eventual reintegration as the child rights approach aims at doing. |
| Supervisor | Bard, Karoly |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/kariuki_joan.pdf |
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