Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on child-friendly justice : adopted by the Commitee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 17 November 2010 and explanatory memoranda / Council of Europe. Committee of Ministers. - Strasbourg : Council of Europe Publishing, 2011. - 95 pages ; 24 cm. - Monograph (Building a Europe for and with Children (Program)), 5 .

This publication approaches the controversial issue of corporal punishment of children from four different angles: the legal and human rights obligation, as defined by regional and international conventions and agreements, to ban corporal punishment of children; the status of corporal punishment in European countries today; recent research results on its effects and prevalence, including how children see it; and the abolition of corporal punishment as a process, entailing changes in law, policies and public opinion.--Publisher's description.

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Juvenile justice, Administration of--Europe
Children--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe