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Promote positive activities amongst young people.  The aim is to reach out to young people, give them positive experiences of life in general and of the police, give them the opportunity to...

At all times, young persons committed offences more often than adults which is mainly because they have not concluded the development of their personality and often do not sufficiently...

Because crime is primarily a youth phenomenon, and because people under the age of 24 are overrepresented 3 to 1 in the criminal justice system, there is good reason to prevent youth crime.

Dealing with juvenile issues in criminal justice system is one of the priority issues in Estonian criminal policy since august 2005, when ministers of Interior and Justice stated this to be...