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Presentations Juveniles and Young Adult Offenders Conference are online now!
From the 6th until the 7th of June 2017, CEP organised a conference on working with juveniles and young adult offenders. This was a follow-up on the very successful one in Lillestrom, Norway, 31 August-1 September 2016.This time the event took place in Barcelona and treat further into the deep aspects that come up and occur when working with juveniles and young adult offenders.
More than 80 delegates attended the conference participating in the exchange of ideas and contributing to the various discussions on topics related to young adult offenders in the age category of 16 to 25 years old.
The conference was formally opened by Gabriel Capilla, director of the Centre for Legal Studies and Gerry McNally, president of the CEP.
The presentations that were given during the conference are online now. Click here to see an overview of all the presentations.
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