Judge for the protection, the education but also the detention of minors: the paradoxes of the function of juvenile court judges
- By Sophie Legrand
- and Lucille Rouet
Pages 22 to 29
Cite this article
- LEGRAND, Sophie
- and ROUET, Lucille,
- Legrand, Sophie.
- et al.
- Legrand, S.
- and Rouet, L.
https://doi.org/10.3917/ep.083.0022
Cite this article
- Legrand, S.
- and Rouet, L.
- Legrand, Sophie.
- et al.
- LEGRAND, Sophie
- and ROUET, Lucille,
https://doi.org/10.3917/ep.083.0022
The number of juveniles imprisoned in juvenile correctional institutions and areas allocated for minors in prison has reached record levels, with more than 800 juveniles incarcerated in France on 1 June 2018. While the original philosophy of the ordinance of 2 February 1945, the text governing the criminal law of minors is that of the primacy of education over repression, this raises the question of the reasons for this increasing recourse to incarceration, but also of the possibility of reconciling education and confinement in the function of the juvenile judge, who has both the civil functions of protection and penal functions; he/she can thus be led to hand down penal sentences but is also governed by the primacy of education.