Gender based violence and youth violence: challenges for judicial reform projects Andrew Morrison Po

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Gender based violence and youth violence
challenges for judicial reform projects
Andrew Morrison Poverty and Gender Group
LCSPP amorrison1_at_worldbank.org
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Youth crime and violencebeyond alternative
sentencing

• Effective treatment can divert a significant
  percentage of youth from future violence and
  crime
• Enormous variability in types of programs and in
  effectiveness
• Significant evidence on what works and what
  doesnt

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Reduction in recidivism institutional programs
Source Lipsey and Wilson, 1998
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Reduction in recidivism non-institutional
programs
Source Lipsey and Wilson, 1998
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And we know what does not work

• Boot camps
• Social casework
• Shock programs (e.g., Scared Straight)
• Waivers to adult court
• D.A.R.E.

Source U.S. Surgeon General, 2001.
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SERIOUS CRIMES AVOIDED PER MILLION DOLLARS SPENT,
CALIFORNIA (1998)
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Home visits
Family support
Graduation incentives
Intensive supervision
Three strikes law
Source Greenwood, Peter. 1998.
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Gender-based violence

• Important in its own right affects up to 60 of
  women
• A risk factor for both juvenile delinquency and
  future gender-based violence

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GBV...justice sector responses

• Most countries of region have ratified key
  international conventions
• Many countries have national legislation on
  gender-based violence that
• Increases criminal sanctions for family and/or
  sexual violence
• Sets public policy and judicial procedures for
  cases of gender-based violence

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But there remains much to do

• Legislation is not perfect
• Judicial training is important, but
  insufficient, because it does not address
  structural deficiencies like corruption, lack of
  access, delays

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GBV should be addressed as part of sector-wide
reform...

• Reform forensic medicine
• Delineate responsibilities of justices of the
  peace
• Export lessons learned from womens police
  stations
• Include community mobilization as a strategy to
  support reform processes