Overview
Youth welfare in criminal proceedings is a statutory task of the Office for Children, Youth and Family Affairs. Youth welfare services in criminal proceedings always become active when a juvenile or adolescent has committed a criminal offense.
Our guiding principle is to provide individual, educational services to help them lead a life without crime. The pedagogical idea is paramount.
Our target group
- Adolescents (14 to 17 years)
- Adolescents (18 to 20 years)
Our tasks
- information
- counseling
- Support
- Participation in diversion proceedings (discontinuation of proceedings when an educational measure is implemented)
- Participation in the entire criminal proceedings
- Assistance with detention decisions
- Suggestion, mediation and monitoring of outpatient forms of sanctions such as
- work instruction,
- supervision instruction,
- victim-offender mediation,
- social training course,
- traffic education course,
- Examination of the need for and, if necessary, suggestion of educational assistance
- Follow-up support
- Referral to other services
- Close cooperation with institutions, schools, independent youth welfare organizations, experts and other parties involved.
Throughout the juvenile court proceedings, we offer help for young people who have committed a crime and their parents with custody, as well as for adolescents:
- to prevent further delinquency
- to achieve the social reintegration of young people and adolescents
- to improve learning opportunities
- to enable new developments
- to practise non-violent ways of resolving conflicts
- to facilitate out-of-court or legally mandated amicable conflict resolution with the help of a neutral mediator.