Let’s protect our children from violent crime by giving them quality education (Part 1)
All children must be protected from violent crime, and individuals who are confined should receive education, training and treatment needed (1-2)
By Lino Lual Lual, Juba, South Sudan
February 9, 2016 (SSB) — On the path to adulthood, youths and middle ages may fall victim to violence or experience an interaction with the criminal justice system that permanently alters their trajectory for the worse. While crime has generally decreased across the South Sudan in recent years, but violence continues to plague in many communities and disproportionately affects communities. Among males and females ages 10 to 24 years old committed atrocities of murder, rape, robbery, prostitution and drug abuses are the leading causes of death among the youths.
At the same time, all criminal justice data needs to be improved and forensics made as scientifically accurate as possible. Questioning their arrests, detention, convictions, and sentences and the reasons for them will help us better to understand the problems. South Sudan government focus on promoting community-oriented policing practices improving trust between law enforcement and the communities adopting a public health approach to preventing and reducing criminality through helping youths to get the education, treatment and training they need to succeeded in their life despite a criminal record.
Strengthen the relationship between Law Enforcement and the Communities to Compliance with the law starts not with the fear of getting caught, arrested or even incarcerated, but with respect for one another and respect for the institutions that guide our democracy. We have an opportunity as well as a responsibility to strengthen connections between law enforcement agencies and the local communities working to eliminate bias in our systems of justice and addressing strained relationships wherever needed.
Institutions- oriented practices in the field and employ methods to address racial and ethnic bias within the juvenile and criminal justice systems to help the Department of Justice to establish the (National Center to Build one South Sudanese Community Trust) and Justice to build capacity in communities and build the evidence base around enhancing procedural justice reducing bias and supporting reconciliation in communities where trust has been harmed.
Trouble makers known as (gangs) are a burden on law enforcement in our country. In Juba the crimes are approximately estimated to be of growing every day in the areas of Rock city, Gudele 1and 2, Munuki (107) Nyakoroun, Jebel resident, Shirkat and in the states etc.
Communities can only implement tools to identify screen and assess exposure to violence and trauma in doing so intervene earlier to mitigate the harmful effects of violence and trauma on the development of our children and youth. Executive leaders, state leaders and mayors should continue to implement violence and crime prevention initiatives as already underway.
For example, the National youths Forum and (NGOs agency)on Violence Prevention should engage motivated authority concern to focus more efforts on decreasing high murder rates among youth and incorporating public health approaches in its strategies.
The Departments of Justice Health and Human Services should encourage adoption of practices to have significantly reduced violent crime at the individual and community levels so that states, local and representatives leaders should consider replication of such approaches which will soon be described accessible and are currently described on Crime Solutions.
Change may start with improving policies and be practices across the systems that unnecessarily refer youth to law enforcement and the courtship the country, in particular, suspension and expulsion policies in schools with efforts that ensure the justice system equips.
From birth throughout their lives, many boys, girls, young women and young men consistently face barriers to success other boys and young men still do not make it to college or start a career due to their detention or imprisoned for life by an arrest or criminal record,
To be continued——————–
The author is a master of strategic studies at Centre for Peace and Development Studies University of Juba, He can be reached via Linolual69@yahoo.com
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