Protecția minorului învinuit sau acuzat de fapte penale
Protection of the Juvenile charged or accused for criminal offences

Summary/Abstract: The legally different treatment of children who committed offenses, the rights of the juvenile delinquent in all procedural phases, as well as the professional duties legally established for persons involved with the administration of penal sanctions applied to juveniles, are to be found in the “Beijing Rules” – the Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice adopted by the UN General Assembly under its resolution 40/33 of November 1985. Such rules represented the beginning of the reform process with the criminal justice, in general, and with the juvenile justice in particular. The Rules provide – for the first time in an international document – a list of the procedural rights of juvenile offenders. An analysis of the definition of the notion of juvenile and the age when the latter is penally responsible is followed by a presentation of influences and correlations between the communitarian law and the Romanian criminal law regarding the phases a youngster under 18 has to go through when coming into contact with the system of justice, as well as institutions and structures in Romania specialized in activities with juveniles – victims or offenders, – their protection being meant to make possible their re-education and social insertion.

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