Can E-safety Compromise Children’s Rights?

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
Tijana Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Research Findings

This chapter provides a more elaborate review and a critical examination of research findings about digital bullying, drawing from an interdisciplinary literature. In light of these findings, it critically analyzes media coverage of e-safety, online risks and harms, which digital bullying is an example of, as well as moral and technopanics –exaggerated concerns over youth use of technology and the consequences that emerge under such circumstances for various stakeholders. This chapter also builds the case for considering protection from digital bullying in the context of children’s rights. Wider social and cultural problems that remain less discussed in public discourse on digital bullying are given special attention to, building the case as to why it is important to address the culture of humiliation, focusing attention on dignity, rather than engaging in simplistic binaries of finger-pointing that are so often witnessed in the aftermaths of digital bullying cases.

scholarly journals Children's Rights and Early Childhood Policy: Impacts and Influences

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Te One
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Early Childhood Policy ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Policy Impacts ◽  
Research And Policy

A combination of research and policy initiatives in early childhood has resulted in a growing interest in young children’s rights. It is a complex discourse characterised by ambiguous understandings of what children’s rights are. This article discusses some of the main early childhood policies and documents from the mid-1980s until the release of the Strategic Plan (Ministry of Education, 2002), with a focus on children’s rights – a focus that has been, at times, subsumed by other contextual influences, including political and economic agendas. While research findings and policy initiatives now appear to be more aligned, children as citizens with rights are still vulnerable.

scholarly journals Young, Accused and Detained; Awful, But Lawful? Pre-Trial Detention and Children’s Rights Protection in Contemporary Western Societies

Youth Justice ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-261
Author(s):  
Yannick van den Brink
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Research Findings

This article explores the underlying explanations of the high reliance on pre-trial detention of children across contemporary Western societies, with a particular focus on the Netherlands. Empirical research findings are used to identify patterns and functions of pre-trial detention in the administration of youth justice. In addition, two driving forces behind pre-trial detention decision-making are explored after scrutinizing the penological underpinnings of youth justice and youth crime control in Western societies. Ultimately, the article addresses to what extent and how international children’s rights standards can effectively protect child suspects and accused from excessive, unlawful and arbitrary pre-trial detention.

scholarly journals “Zooming In” on Children’s Rights During a Pandemic: Technology, Child Justice and covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-304
Author(s):  
Nessa Lynch ◽  
Ursula Kilkelly
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Virtual Visits ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Remote Participation

Abstract The implementation of public health measures in response to the covid-19 pandemic has impacted heavily on the operation of child justice systems and places of detention, creating new challenges in the safeguarding and implementation of children’s rights. Yet, it has also been a time of innovation, particularly in the use of technology. Using case studies from Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, we discuss how technology has been used to maintain the balance between restrictive yet necessary public health measures and the operation of the child justice system. Examples include remote participation in remand hearings and trial and the use of “virtual visits” for children in detention.

Armed conflict and children's rights.

1997 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1385-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Wessells
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights
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