Antigone’s 2024 Report on Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Detenetion Centers in Italy

Association Antigone, a partner of the ARISA Child project, published its Seventh Report on Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Correctional Institutions – Minor Prospectives. This publication is the result of Antigone’s analysis and elaboration and direct observation of juvenile detention facilities in Italy. It examines the measures introduced by the Caivano Decree. The report critically assesses the current and anticipated destructive effect of the law on the Italian juvenile justice system. It underscores that the implementation of the Caivano Decree has led to increased recourse to detention and hampered the recovery paths for young offenders. It highlights the record number of inmates in Italian juvenile prisons that reached 500 in 2024 although the number of juvenile crimes remained relatively stable. “Punish to educate” is a losing policy, and the report explicitly argues so.

In addition, Association Antigone released an article “A Look on Europe” (in Italian Uno Sguardo All’Europa) comparing the juvenile justice systems in the EU context referring to the findings of the research conducted under the ARISA Child project.

 

Full report „Minor Prospectives. Seventh Report on Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Correctional Institutions“ is available In Italian here. Read a summary in English here.

Read the article “A Look on Europe” (in Italian Uno Sguardo All’Europa) in Italian here.