Beijing Rules

Aisha Chandra Suny

Arianne Kumara
Hana Milenia
Lady Kendra
Rachel angela
Reynaldi Alexandro
Syahrisa Seputra
- Also known as the Standard Minimum
Rules for the Administration of
Juvenile Justice.
- Provide guidelines on how children
should be treated while they are in
the criminal justice system
- Was a resolution of the Sixth United
Nations Congress on the Prevention of
Crime and Treatment of Offenders
- Much of its drafting took place in
Beijing, hence it being called the
Beijing Rules.
History
- In September 1980, the United Nations held its Sixth
United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and
the Treatment of Offenders in Caracas, Venezuela.
- The UN had previously declared 1980 the "Year of the
Child."
- Dahn Batchelor, who holds a certificate in criminology
and participant at that Congress, presented a paper about
the need for a bill of rights for young offenders.
- The United States delegation supported the paper.
History
- Much drafting of the policy took place at a conference in
Beijing, China.
- It was originally proposed as a Bill of Rights for Young
Offenders, but was eventually renamed the United Nations
Standard Minimum Rules on the Administration of Juvenile
Justice.
- The proposed draft was then discussed at length at the United
Nations Seventh Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the
Treatment of Offenders in Milan, Italy, in September 1985.
- It was adopted on 29 November 1985 by the United Nations General
Assembly.
6 parts of the beijing rules
Part 1: Fundamental principles
Part 2: Investigation and
Prosecution
Part 3: Adjudication and
Disposition
Part 4: Non-institutional
treatment
Part 5: Institutional
treatment
Part 6: Research, planning,
policy formulation and
evaluation
6 Parts of the Beijing Rules (cont.)
Part 5

•institutional treatment

•Place to provide
care,protection,education

Part 6

•Research,Planning,policy
formulation,and evaluation
Charateristic
1. Operates within two sets of rules governing juvenile
justice: The United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention
of Juvenile Deliquency (Riyadh Guidelines) and ( United
Nations Rules for the protection of Deprived of their
Liberty (The JDL Rules)
2. The rules are non binding per se, certain principles are
enunciated in the the Rules
3. The Rules do not prevent the appication of the United
Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of
prisoners adapted in 1995
Sources
- https://yjlc.uk/beijing-rules/
- https://www.scribd.com/document/63405471/HR-Beijing-Rules
- http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/10.1163/ej.9789004164819.i
-520.151
- http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/40/a40r033.htm