Best Interests of the Child
Definition
The principle that a child's welfare and development, not only the offence or the process, should guide decisions affecting the child.
Related terms
- Beijing Rules
- The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice, adopted by General Assembly resolution 40/33 on 29 November 1985,...
- Diversion
- Handling a child's case outside formal judicial proceedings, for example through caution, mediation or community-based measures, so that the criminal process itself...
- Non-Custodial Measures
- Sentences or pre-trial measures that do not involve imprisonment, such as probation, community service, suspended sentences, fines and diversion, the subject of...
- Riyadh Guidelines
- The United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/112 on 14 December 1990, setting out...
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- The binding 1989 treaty whose Article 37 and Article 40 state a child's rights in the justice process; the Beijing Rules and...