Systém trestní justice nad mladistvými v Rakousku
Austrian model of juvenile criminal law

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to define the basic features of the Austrian model of juvenile criminal law. The author has drawn her inspiration from her study stay at the Court for the Juvenile in Vienna. The Austrian system of juvenile criminal law corresponds with the conception of the judiciary model of dealing with the juvenile offenders. Besides other important characteristics of the system the author picks aut the problems concerning creation of specialized criminal courts for the juvenile persons and problems cancerning the independence of the legal norm dealing with the juvenile offenders. The construction of the relative criminal liability of the juvenile persons is also interesting. The care of the Law of Juvenile Justice is represented by extrajudicial settlement of criminal acts. Injormation concerning its process is in general conveyed in the article. There is also a note concerned with alternative sanctions carried aut as public utility actions and social services within the framework of juvenile criminal law.

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