2010/2017(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)

- having regard to the French Ombudsman for Children’s 2007 thematic report entitled ‘Adolescents en souffrance - Plaidoyer pour une véritable prise en charge’ (Suffering adolescents - a plea for genuine care),

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas juvenile delinquency is no ~~longer confined to acts of violence against others, theft, gang crime, smoking, drinking, taking socially accepted drugs such as cannabis, the influence of cults, or suicidal acts, but it now also ext~~t a new concern, but a growing problem affecting adolescendts to early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a prime vehicle, dangerous games such as the ‘scarf game’ (voluntary strangulation), Jackass, happy slapping, gang rape, substances which are smokedof a younger and younger age; whereas it now covers a wide range of actions such as acts of violence against others, theft, gang crime, druink~~, or injected, self-harm, or the glorification of anorexia, excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victims~~ing, taking drugs, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography particularly through the Internet, and gang rape,

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7. (a) new Calls on the European Commission to propose a Common European Strategy to combat juvenile delinquency; the Strategy would address the following points: a. a need for operational coordination and an interdisciplinary approach between all the European Union policies (justice and security, employment, social affairs, women and gender rights) involved in combating juvenile delinquency, b. incorporate all relevant NGOs, civil society organisations, networks, and specialists, in order to create a pan- European space where to exchange information and best practices;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Welcomes the adoption of the Commission's new EU youth policy framework, 'Youth on the Move', which seeks to provide more equal opportunities for young people in the labour market and promote the active citizenship, social inclusion and solidarity of young people;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7b. Calls on the Member States to step up their measures to prevent gender violence among young people through specific action in the area of education and combating sexist stereotypes and through better collaboration between the individuals and milieus affected, such as the family, school, the public space and the media; underscores the importance of conducting campaigns to raise awareness of the various types of violence against women and of combating sexist stereotypes;

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Calls on~~Urges the Member States to establish re-education and social reintegration programmes for juvenile delinquents and, as regards judicial matters, to apply a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to adults, irrespective of their social status, who encourage teenagers to commit crimes for example by helping them to obtain hard drugs, cannabis, or other substances to smoke, drink or injectrengthen and promote a three-way approach to combating juvenile delinquency: prevention, judicial measures and reintegration and rehabilitation; a. prevention measures would include: (i). facilitating the access of young people and parents to counselling provided by staff trained in child psychology; (ii). establishing special telephone 'hotlines' where, victims and parents of victims but also perpetrators, can call and seek guidance from specially trained staff; (iii). juvenile delinquency awareness campaigns conducted in schools;

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Calls on~~Urges the Member States to establish re-education and social reintegration programmes for juvenile delinquents and, as regards judicial matters, to apply a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to adults, irrespective of their social status, who encourage teenagers to commit crimes for example by helping them to obtain hard drugs, cannabis, or other substances to smoke, drink or inject; rengthen and promote a three-way approach to combating juvenile delinquency: prevention, judicial measures and reintegration and rehabilitation; a. prevention measures would include: (i). facilitating the access of young people and parents to counselling provided by staff trained in child psychology; (ii). establishing special telephone 'hotlines' where, victims and parents of victims but also perpetrators, can call and seek guidance from specially trained staff; (iii). juvenile delinquency awareness campaigns conducted in schools;

Amendment 105 #

Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Points out that the conduct and duration of judicial proceedings, the choice of the measure to be adopted and the subsequent implementation thereof must be guided by the overriding interest of the child; stresses in this connection that imprisonment must be ordered only as a last resort and that any prison sentence must be served in facilities suitable for juvenile delinquents;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Urges the Commission to propose common methods for combating the taking of hard drugs, marijuana, the new and unfamiliar psychotropic substances known as ‘afterburners’ and other substances which can be smoked, drunk or injected;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that boys and girls on an equal basis receive an indispensable education that avoids social and cultural patterns, prejudices and stereotyped roles for the sexes; special attention should be put on young people having difficulty in schools and on all members of the teaching faculty in order to help them to integrate the concept of gender equality in their curriculum;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Calls on the Member States to implement or reinforce gender policy in the educational programmes in relation to human rights and strengthen sexual education programmes putting a particular emphasis on the issue of gender equality and teaching of mutual respect;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Calls on the Member States to ensure, in the context of promoting equal opportunity policies, youth's access to competent information on human sexuality, and modern and effective ways of contraception;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas juvenile delinquency is no longer confined to acts of violence against others, theft, gang crime, smoking, drinking, taking socially accepted drugs such as cannabis, the influence of cults, or suicidal acts, but it now also extends to early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a prime vehicle, dangerous games such as the ‘scarf game’ (voluntary strangulation), Jackass, and happy slapping, rape or gang rape, abusing substances which are smoked, drunk, or injected, self- harm, or the glorification of ~~anorexia~~eating disorders, excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victims; whereas troubled teenagers may commit crimes against other people to which they have previously been victim,

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Invites the Member States to ensure youth's access to competent information on human sexuality, modern and effective ways of family planning including the natural methods of family planning ; calls on the Member States to assure the fundamental right of parents to chose the sexual education for their children when minor;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8b. Stresses the importance of developing measures in the Member States which provide for alternative forms of punishment to confinement that are also educational, such as community service, reparation and mediation with victims, literacy courses and vocational training, depending on the seriousness of the offence and the delinquent’s age, personality and level of maturity;

Amendment 112 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)

8d. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to adopt legislation ensuring the principle of equal treatment irrespective of age, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief and disability in the field of education;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Stresses the important work carried out by youth centres as a meeting place for young people and points out that the admission of juvenile offenders to such centres would facilitate their social reintegration and encourage a feeling of being a member of society; calls on the Member States to enhance the role and quality of youth centres;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 e (new)

8e. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to ensure the implementation of the Europe 2020 and the ET 2020 strategies and in particular to achieve the benchmark relating to early school leaving before 2020 by promoting synergies among different policy areas;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 f (new)

8f. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to address social exclusion an poverty of young people as a preventive measure to combat youth crime;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States and the social partners, to review the policies on work-life balance with athe view tof ensuring that the direct or indirect financial costs incurred in order to give effect to parental responsibility are borne not by industry, but by the community as a whole, so as to stamp out discriminatory behaviour at the workplace and support effective parentingequality between women and men in relation to family responsibilities;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States and the social partners, to review the policies on work-life balance with a view to ensuring that the direct or indirect financial costs incurred in order to give effect to parental responsibility are borne not only by industry, but also by the community as a whole, so as to ~~stamp out~~curb discriminatory behaviour at the workplace and help support effective parenting;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States and the social partners, to review the policies on work-life balance with a view to ensuring that the direct or indirect financial costs incurred in order to give effect to parental responsibility are borne not by industry but by the community as a whole, so as to stamp out discriminatory behaviour at the workplace and support effective parenting;deleted

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Expresses the need, in particular, to promote family-friendly policies – also through new CSR parameters – in particular for single-parent families, to provide them with the right conditions for a work-life balance;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas juvenile delinquency is no longer confined to acts of violence against ~~other~~persons, theft, gang crime, smoking, drinking, taking socially accepted drugs such as cannabis, the influence of cults, or suicidal acts, but it now also extends to gender violence, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a prime vehicle, dangerous games such as the ‘scarf game’ (voluntary strangulation), Jackass, happy slapping, gang rape, substances which are smoked, drunk, or injected, self-harm, or the glorification of anorexia, excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victims,

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9. (a) new Urges the Member States to create gender- specific approaches within the juvenile justice systems to acknowledge girls' pathways into delinquency and address social factors such as race and poverty; (a) facilities and personnel must be aware and allow access of girls to gender-specific health and personal care items; likewise, personnel must include women; (b) attention must be paid to meeting the pre- and post-natal health needs of pregnant girls and young mothers in the system; girls who give birth while in confinement must be allowed and encouraged to parent while in confinement and must be given resources and training to develop good parenting skills; (c) more efforts need to be made in order to include female adolescent delinquents in research studies because girls and young women confront additional problems unique to their gender such as sexual abuse, battering, teenage pregnancy, single parenthood, and disparity in educational, vocational, and employment opportunities;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls that family mainstreaming, which also approaches different policies (eg. social, education and financial policies as well as the crime laws etc.) from the family perspective, is a key instrument for coordinating efforts aimed at preventing youth crime behaviour;deleted

Amendment 122 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Member States to give particular assistance to families with financial and social problems by adopting measures to cover essential needs in terms of food and housing, guarantee access to basic education and medical care for all family members, in particular children, and facilitate their integration on the labour market and in society, in the economy and in political life, since this is the only way in which a healthy and equitable family environment can be ensured for children’s and young people's development;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Encourages all Member States to allocate sufficient resources to confinement or rehabilitation centres, in order to provide for adequately trained staff which would include: multi-lingual training in the dominant minority languages, sensitivity training with respect to different cultures, ethnicities and religions (for example, to allow prayer during Ramadan);

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up innovative policies recognising the importance of the educative role of family members who decide to foster the development of the human and social capital of future generations, focusing initially on the irreplaceable role of older people who have left the formal labour market but who, by handing down values and knowledge, whether of work or of human relations, can help young generations to blossom and contribute to their informal learning processes; calls for the activities carried out under the heading of solidarity between generations to be included among the key factors in the prevention of juvenile delinquency;deleted

Amendment 125 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Member States to include in their educational policies the provision of special counselling and psychological support for children encountering social-integration problems, measures to combat all forms of discrimination against members of the school community, and action to draw up and implement programmes to combat all types of violence;

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the competent bodies to consider working with the family as an alternative to placing the child in care when serial delinquency calls for more consistent action;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to support and promote the operational programmes launched by the Commission in connection with the European Alliance for Families; calls on the Commission to step up the development of tools providing a systematic basis for the exchange of good practice and research in this field;deleted

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to duly address the role of men and fathers in promoting gender equality, in taking up family responsibilities and in ensuring a balance between professional and family responsibilities of their spouses;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the authorities to take the steps required to put women and men in a better position to choose how they wish to achieve work-life balance in order to exercise their parental responsibility to more fruitful effect;deleted

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas juvenile delinquency is no longer confined to acts of violence against others, theft, gang crime, smoking, drinking, taking socially accepted drugs such as cannabis, the influence of cults, or suicidal acts, but it now also extends to early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a prime vehicle, dangerous games such as the ‘scarf game’ (voluntary strangulation), Jackass, happy slapping, gang rape, substances which are smoked, drunk or injected, self-harm, or the glorification of anorexia, excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victims,deleted

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the authorities to take the steps required to ~~put wo~~enable men and women ~~in a better position to choose how they wish to achieve work-life balance in order to exercise their parental responsibility to more fruitful effect~~to balance work and family life so that they can assume their parental responsibilities; to introduce measures aimed at resolving the problems of failure at school and violence at school; to support the work of associations and NGOs working with young people on preventing juvenile delinquency;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the authorities to take the steps required to put women and men in a better position to choose how they wish to achieve work-life balance ~~in order to exercise their parental responsibility to more fruitful effect~~;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to broaden the scope of policy measures related to equal opportunities and work-life balance ~~so as to ensure that, instead of being aimed solely at women, they also address the needs of, and the options open to, men/fathers~~;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Member States to support school and education policies aiming to prevent young people from dropping out of school and education and to compare best practices in this field;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Encourages the Commission and the Member States, also on the occasion of the European Year of Volunteering, to promote and strengthen the role of volunteer associations, in which young people can experience commitment and personal and social responsibility that are highly educational, also from a civic point of view;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Points out that the media can play an important role in preventing juvenile delinquency in two ways: - by providing information and increasing public awareness, as well as by means of high-quality broadcasts highlighting the positive contribution that young people make to society; - by monitoring broadcasts involving violence, pornography or drugs; calls, in this connection, on the Member States and the relevant national and regional authorities to implement strictly, and fully, Community and national legislation on the monitoring of television broadcasting and other content possibly of a particularly violent nature or unsuitable for juveniles;

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States' national, regional and local authorities to promote the exchange of best practices with regard to cooperation agreements between police and judicial authorities, educational establishments, local authorities, youth organisations and social services at local level, to national strategies and national youth support programmes, and to positive action and intervention on the part of parents associations and NGOs in schools, and residents and NGOs in local communities, etc.;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)

14c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make the most of existing European resources and programmes, such as the 'Preventing and Combating Crime 2007-2013', 'Criminal Justice 2007-2013', DAPHNE III, "Youth in Action 2007-2013', EQUAL and URBACT programmes, European Social Fund measures and the European helpline for missing children, including measures to tackle and prevent juvenile delinquency and the social reintegration of perpetrators and victims;

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Maintains that any employee wishing to take a break from work to work less in order to devote him-/herself to parenting should be allowed to work flexible hours; calls on small and medium-sized enterprises to cooperate more actively and on the authorities to bring greater financial flexibility to bear on their budget estimates as regards State aid;deleted

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas young people can now be more exposed to new and alarming forms of mental suffering, particularly also through pervasive pornography and a new Internet addiction,

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Maintains that any employee wishing to take a break from work or to work less in order to devote him-/herself to parenting should be allowed to work flexible hours; calls on small and medium-sized enterprises to cooperate more actively and on the authorities to ~~bring greater financial flexibility to bear on their budget estimates as regards State aid~~introduce programmes to achieve that goal;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Member States to ensure equal opportunities for all families and to give particular assistance to families with financial and social problems as pointed out in the EP resolution of 21 June 2007 on juvenile delinquency, the role of women, the family and society as well as on taking further measures to reduce the pay gap in women's earnings;

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt constructive measures in support of women and men, for instance to enable them to return to work after a period given over chiefly to parenting, and, to that end, to encourage policies to facilitate (re-)entry onto the labour market with a view to regaining financial independence and maintaining their social position;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on the Member States to effectively implement the Council Directive 2010/18/EU concerning the revised framework agreement on parental leave; calls on the European Commission to monitor the implementation of this Directive at national level;

Amendment 144 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Member States to promote fiscal policy framed in such a way as to allow for the financial obligations entailed in parenting, including childcare costs, and to apply tax arrangements or a tax relief system to that end; calls on the Commission and the Member States to give a summary overview of the fiscal practice of each Member State in the area of fiscal expenditure connected with childcare, especially expenditure connected with child-minding or placing children in preschool facilities;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Member States to ~~promot~~introduce fiscal policy framed in such a way as to allow for the financial obligations entailed in parenting, including childcare costs, and to apply tax arrangements or a tax relief system to that end;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital NEW

- whereas juvenile delinquency is deviant behaviour by persons aged 15-18 which is socially unacceptable and is punishable under criminal law; whereas the age at which criminal offences are committed is constantly falling,

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas young people can suffer from multiple addictions combining alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and psychotropic drugs,

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. For the purpose of this resolution, the following definition of ‘juvenile delinquency’ shall be employed throughout the text: a. “A juvenile is a child or a young person who under the respective Member States legal systems, may be dealt with for an offence in a manner which is different from an adult, b. An offence is any behaviour (act or omission) that is punishable by law under the respective legal systems, A juvenile offender or delinquent is a child or young person who is alleged to have committed or who has been found to have committed an offence," (A/RES/40/33 UN Beijing Rules 29 Nov. 1985)

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. For the purpose of this resolution, the following definition of ‘juvenile delinquency’ shall be employed throughout the text: c. “A juvenile is a child or a young person who under the respective Member States legal systems, may be dealt with for an offence in a manner which is different from an adult, d. An offence is any behaviour (act or omission) that is punishable by law under the respective legal systems, A juvenile offender or delinquent is a child or young person who is alleged to have committed or who has been found to have committed an offence," (A/RES/40/33 UN Beijing Rules 29 Nov. 1985).

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas th~~ese excesses are particularly worrying because they are often made easier~~is phenomenon is all the more worrying as it is often facilitated by new technologies, on account of the anonymity and hence impunity that they allow, ~~and by the amount of spare time which so many teenagers have, bearing in mind that the period termed ‘adolescence’ now starts earlier and sometimes ends after a person has officially come of age,~~

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas these excesses are particularly worrying because they are often made easier by new technologies, on account of the anonymity and hence impunity that they allow, and by the amount of spare time which so many teenagers have, bearing in mind the period termed ‘adolescence’ now starts earlier and sometimes ends after a person has officially come of age,deleted

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)

- having regard to the platform for action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995 and to its resolutions of 18 May 2000 on the follow-up to the Beijing Action Platform, of 10 March 2005 on the follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women – Platform for Action (Beijing + 10) and of 25 February 2010 on Beijing +15 – UN Platform for Action for Gender Equality,

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas antisocial or criminal behaviour may be carried out by young people of either sex, but whereas evidence suggests that this behaviour is increasing amongst girls,

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas girls in the juvenile system have unique mental and physical needs which require gender-specific programmes and services; since many of the girls in the juvenile justice system have experienced some form of sexual, physical, or emotional abuse; since many of the girls are mothers, which presents a unique set of issues, including the separation of young mothers from their children,

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ~~lawless~~understanding antisocial behaviour by some young people, and violence that they inflict on others are a wide field of interest in which each component needs to be examined individually in depth before the different factors can be brought into an interconnected relationship serving to reveal the subject in its full complexity and identify possible solutionidentifying possible responses, necessitates a close look at the different, sometimes interconnected, factors which have an influence on their lives,

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas ~~assessments of the problem vary depending on the Member States concerned, individual or collective beliefs, trends in society the categories of o~~it is difficult to formulate EU- wide assessments of juvenile delinquency, due to Member States employing varying definitions of the issue, significant differences between juvenile justice systems, and difference~~, or~~s in the ~~sample groups and methods used for research~~ages of juvenile criminal responsibility,

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas political activities should not, therefore, be centralised at the Community decision-making level; whereas, however, the EU could do more to support national initiatives by providing budgets for projects set up by governments, NGOs, local and national associations working for and with young people, or networks for the exchange of best practice and information,

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas political activities should not, therefore, be centralised at the Community decision-making level; whereas, however, the EU could do more to support national initiatives by providing budgets for projects set up by governments, NGOs, or networks for the exchange of best practices and information, with respect to individual Member State policies and legislation, a EU-level common strategy on combating and preventing juvenile delinquency is necessary in order to effectively target this issue; a strategy of this kind would incorporate existing EU programmes related to juvenile delinquency and it would also reunite national governments, NGOs and other relevant specialist networks in order to exchange information on best practices and to develop policy instruments aimed specifically at juvenile delinquency,

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas combating juvenile delinquency should not be used as a pretext for restricting personal freedoms; whereas every person is a human being, regardless of his or her socio-economic status; and whereas every citizen should consequently be allowed to act for his or her own benefit and for the good of others nor to discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, religion and/or sexual orientation,

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas in effective combating of juvenile delinquency, an integrated policy approach, covering among others: family aspect, suitable financial and social support, gender equality and education - including social and civil values and reproductive rights for women, is fundamental. Such integrated policy should contribute from the earliest years to the process of socialisation of youth,

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas every generation worries about its teenagers ~~fears for them or in some cases just fears them; whereas a society’s moral values can be gauged simply by observing the way in which it treats its teen~~and whereas the teenage years are often a critical agers; whereas ‘it takes a village to bring up a child’, in other words the necessary supervision sometimes has to be brought to bear while young persons are being brought up ~~by their parents~~ within the family,

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas the development of a EU- wide common strategy would require the allocation of specific budget resources, such as the introduction of budget lines by the European Commission, to clearly assist juvenile delinquency programs,

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the European Union and its Member States are still struggling to become the most dynamic knowledge- based economy in the world, whilst priorities have shifted to the need for a common-sense-based economy,deleted

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the European Union and its Member States are still struggling to become the most dynamic knowledge- based economy in the world~~, whilst priorities have shifted to the need for a common-sense-based economy~~ and an integrative society achieving a high level of employment and equality by making more efficient use of resources,

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas any policy in the field of gender equality in the labour market has consequences regarding the presence of women and men within the family home regardless of their responsibilities,

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas parental responsibility for building the human and social capacity of future generations should be viewed first and foremost in economic terms as a social cohesion ~~issu~~resource, thus making for a better understanding of the interdependence of equal opportunities policies, effective parenting, and measures to combat juvenile delinquency,

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas parental responsibility for building the human and social capacity of future generations should be viewed first and foremost in economic terms as a social cohesion issue, thus making for a better understanding of the interdependence of equal opportunities policies, effective parenting, and measures to combat juvenile delinquency,deleted

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. Whereas international institutions, in addition to focusing on parental responsibility for children’s development and for building their human and social capacity, also stress the importance of parental vigilance and involvement to combat lawless behaviour by young people and the violence that they inflict on others; whereas, however, those institutions ~~are~~do not as explicit about the material conditions required in order to make for effective parenting and rule out direct or indirect discrimination against women and men on the labour market and the disadvantages that they would suffer if national social security systems were to be covertly undermined, whether immediately or with a time lagsufficiently address the other socio- economic factors involved in juvenile delinquency, such as failure at school, violence at school or the absence of prevention programmes supported by the public authorities,

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas international institutions~~, in addition to focusing on parental responsibility for children’s development and for building their human and social capacity, also~~ stress the importance of parental ~~vigilance and~~ involvement to combat lawless behaviour by young people and the violence that they inflict on others; where, however, those institutions are not as explicit about the material conditions required in order to make for effective parenting and rule out direct or indirect discrimination against women and men on the labour market and the disadvantages that they would suffer if national social security systems were to be covertly undermined, whether immediately or with a time lag not enough emphasis is placed on the relevance of the social cohesion aspect of the matter, in terms of the correlation between poverty and social exclusion and incidents of juvenile delinquency,

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas companies naturally expect their apprentices or young professionals to have not only technical expertise and job skills, but also ‘flexible skills’ in terms of their human and social capacity; whereas political institutions, on the other hand, ~~are less explicit about~~do not concern themselves to the necessary extent with the direct or indirect financial cost entailed in investment in human and social capacity building for future generations, ~~in spite of the fact that any other investment to serve the common good is normally factored into GDP,~~

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas every generation worries about its teenagers fears for them or in some cases just fears them; whereas a society’s moral values can be gauged simply by observing the way in which it treats its teenagers; whereas ‘it takes a village to bring up a child’, in other words the necessary supervision sometimes has to be brought to bear while young persons are being brought up by their parents within the familand it is the duty of the European Union and Member States to protect them from juvenile delinquency,

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas companies naturally expect their apprentices or young professionals to have not only technical expertise and job skills, but also ‘flexible skills’ in terms of their human and social capacity; whereas political institutions, on the other hand, are less explicit about the direct or indirect financial cost entailed in investment in human and social capacity building for future generations, in spite of the fact that any other investment to serve the common good is normally factored into GDP,deleted

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas, contrary to the objectives and commitments outlined in the Lisbon Strategy and the Europe 2020 Strategy, several Member States are sharply reducing their resources and investments in education and training,

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the tendency to make men and women submit to the ever increasing demands of the inept flexicurity imposed by the labour market, because it supposedly improves performance, raises the question whether the goal to pursue within the EU should be a competition- driven social economy geared to human needs as reflected in social relations, thus laying emphasis on individual and collective conscience, freedom, and responsibility,deleted

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the tendency of the labour market to make men and women submit to ~~the~~ ever increasing demands ~~of the inept flexicurity imposed by the labour market, because it supposedly~~in order to improves performance, r~~aises the question whether the goal to pursue within the EU should b~~uns counter to the goal of the EU to achieve a competition- driven social economy geared to human needs as reflected in social relations, thus laying emphasis on individual and collective conscience, freedom, and responsibility,

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas the tendency to make men and women submit to the ever increasing demands of the inept flexicurity imposed by the labour market, because it supposedly improves performance, raises the question whether the goal to pursue within the EU should be a competition- driven social economy geared to human needs as reflected in social relations thus laying emphasis on individual and collective conscience, freedom and responsibility,deleted

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the international and regional human rights conventions deriving therefrom, mothers and children are entitled to special aid and assistance and whereas parents, as a matter of priority, have the right to choose what kind of upbringing their children should have,

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas ~~under~~ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights~~, mothers and children are entitled to special aid and assistance~~ identifies the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society, which includes non-conventional family units such as same-sex partnerships, unmarried couples and one-parent families; and whereas parents, as a matter of priority, have the right to choose what kind of upbringing their children should have,

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, mothers and children are entitled to special aid and assistance and whereas, parents~~, as a matter of priority, have the right to choose what kind of upbringing their children should have~~ have the obligation to respect and uphold those stated rights,

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas although the family is unquestionably the first environment in which children are socialised in terms of their perception of the world and their behaviour, it is now no longer the only environment involved, nor indeed, unfortunately, is its role invariably the most decisive,

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas although the family is unquestionably the first environment in which children are socialised in terms of their perception of the world and their behaviour, it is now no longer the only environment involved, nor indeed is its role invariably the most decisive; whereas other socio-economic factors play a role in influencing the child’s development,

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. Whereas every generation worries about its teenagers and fears for them ~~or in some cases just fears them; whereas a society's moral values can be gauged simply by observing the way in which it treats its teenagers; whereas 'it takes a village to bring up a child', i~~; whereas the public perception is that juvenile delinquency is on the rise; whereas this matter affects a particularly vulnerable portion of the~~r words the necessary supervision sometimes has to be brought to bear while young persons are being brought up by~~ population and has greater negative impact than adult crime; whereas many of the victims of juvenile delinquency are otheir ~~parents within the family~~young people,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas although the family ~~is unquestionably~~can be seen as the first environment in which children are socialised in terms of their perception of the world and their behaviour, it is no~~w no longer~~t the only environment involved, nor indeed is it~~s role inv~~ necessariably the most ~~decisive~~influential,

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas although the family is unquestionably the first environment in which children are socialised in terms of their perception of the world and their behaviour, it is now no longer the only environment involved, nor indeed is its role invariably the most decisive, pointing out the socio-economic marginalisation as a ground for delinquent behaviour,

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas ~~although~~ the family is unquestionably the first environment in which the children are socialised in terms of their perception of the world and their behaviour~~, it is no longer the only environment involved nor indeed is its role invariably the most decisive~~; whereas the family, traditional or not, is key in providing a healthy, safe and nurturing environment during a child’s formative years; whereas the family is also crucial in terms of the prevention and rehabilitation of a juvenile delinquent,

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)

Oa. whereas other institutions, such as kindergartens, schools, children and youth organisations, contribute to the socialisation of children and youth,

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)

Oa. whereas school has a particular role to play and there is thus a need to strengthen the link between the two parents and the teaching staff in order to develop a better framework for young people at school,

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)

Oa. whereas the crisis in the family is having damaging effects on the physical and mental wellbeing of the younger generation and consequently on the state of society as a whole,

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas it is difficult to say for certain exactly what types of contributory factors make a young person adopt delinquent behaviour, since the path leading to socially deviant and ultimately delinquent behaviour is due in each instance to theidentify the factors leading to delinquent patterns since they include individual character, specific individual circumstances corresponding to actual experience and the principal circles within which every child’s and teenager’s development takes place, that is to say, the family, school, peer groups, and, more generally, the socio- economic environment in which he or she lives,

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas it is difficult to say for certain exactly what types of contributory factors make a young person adopt delinquent behaviour, since the path leading to socially deviant and ultimately delinquent behaviour is due in each instance to the specific individual circumstances corresponding to actual experience and the principal circles within which every child’s and teenager’'s development takes place, that is to say, the family, school, peer groups, and, more generally, the socio- economic environment in which he or she lives, often lead to situations, creating a ground for delinquent behaviour, with a specific emphasis on the unemployment factor which is viewed as a key means for drawing young offenders into the sphere of economic and social instability,

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q

Q. whereas ~~emotional and social behaviour is determined essentially during the first years of children’s lives through their relationships, primarily with their mother, their father, or other adult caregivers~~children's relationships primarily with their mother, their father, or other adult caregivers during the first years of their lives are very influential in determining their social behaviour and in shaping their social relations, but so too is their environment outside the family, especially preschool and school facilities of all kinds, above all in families where both parents are in professional employment,

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. Whereas the above concerns are not new; whereas it should not be forgotten that juvenile delinquents are, according to the Member States, in the minority - given that most teenagers manage to make the transition from childhood to adulthood without too many problems; whereas attention should now be focused in addition on the increased variety of forms of delinquent behaviour while also taking into account the lack of awareness among adults and the yawning gaps in their knowledge in the minority,

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)

Qa. whereas the flood of images of extremely violent scenes and of pornographic material carried on the various media, such as games, television and the Internet, and the exploitative media portrayal of juvenile victims and perpetrators in many cases border on violations of the fundamental rights of children and are instrumental in trivialising violence,

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)

Ra. whereas children living in poverty are at great risk of malnutrition, poor education, violence and criminal activity,

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)

Ra. having regard to the need for social, legal and economic recognition of caregiving as an 'invisible' activity that is still mainly done by women, also in order to assess its impact on the gender pay gap,

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)

Ra. whereas it has been noted in numerous studies that the increase in juvenile crime has been reported in states with a particularly explosive mix of racial tension, poverty, drug abuse, broken families, unemployment, and alienation or in states dealing with the impact of rapid social and economic changes,

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas the concept of multiple discrimination needs to be defined at European level ~~in the light of GDP indicators~~,

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas the concept of multiple discrimination - as including considerations of different ethnic minorities, socioeconomic factors, and gender - needs to be ~~defin~~reassessed at European level ~~in the light of GDP indicator~~and evaluated in correlation to income levels,

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas the situation of teenagers needs to be ~~allowed their say and hence given the opportunity to articulate the expectations which they have of society~~taken into account, in order to avoid blind, unthinking law-and-order policy, as exemplified by ‘Do you know where your child is now?’, a European project set up by the Slovak Government to raise parental awareness as a means of prevention,

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas teenagers need to be allowed their say and hence given the opportunity to articulate the expectations which they have of society, in order to avoid blind, unthinking law-and-order policy, as exemplified by ‘Do you know where your child is now?’, a European project set up by the Slovak Government to raise parental awareness as a means of prevention,

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas teenagers need to be allowed their say and hence given the opportunity to articulate the expectations which they have of society, in order to avoid blind, unthinking law-and-order policy, as exemplified by 'Do you know where your child is now?', a European project set up by the Slovak Government to raise parental awareness as a means of prevention,deleted

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital U

U. whereas the experience of the World Movement of Mothers demonstrates the usefulness of appealing to mothers in distressed areas in order to secure their active involvement for the purposes of framing, establishing, implementing, and assessing public policies to combat juvenile delinquency,deleted

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B (new)

B. whereas juvenile delinquency means a range of criminal offences punishable by national legislation that are committed by a minor, i.e. a young person who has not attained the age of legal majority,

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital V

V. whereas this resolution relates specifically to the interdependence of the various national and Community equal opportunities policies and ~~effective parenting and~~ their impact in terms of personal freedom and responsibility, solidarity between generations, building the human and social capital of future generations, and combating juvenile delinquency,

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital V

V. whereas this resolution relates specifically to the interdependence of the various national and Community equal policies and ~~effective parenting and their impact in terms of personal freedom and responsibility, solidarity between generations, building the human and social capital of future generations, and~~its impact in terms of combating juvenile delinquency,

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital V a (new)

Va. whereas it is encouraging that there are numerous projects for exchanging best practice among Member States which seek to give teenagers their say, such as the European project ‘Do you know where your child is now?’,

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital V b (new)

Vb. whereas the subject of work in the home needs to be discussed with reference to the notion of discrimination related to the uptake of maternity, paternity, parental, and family leave, in order to ascertain whether the discrimination in question is a form of sex discrimination; whereas the concept of multiple discrimination needs to be defined at European level,

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital V c (new)

Vc. whereas the pact between genders and generations must be built on the possibility for individuals to organise their working and private lives and reconcile the economic imperatives of production entailed in gainful employment with the possibility of choosing what tasks to devote themselves to and when, within a context of rights and responsibilities laid down by legislation and agreements,

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital V d (new)

Vd. whereas jobs in the childcare and education sector should be better paid to allow men to work in this field, which could have positive results for the education of young people,

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Calls on the Commission to lay down specific criteria for all Member States for the collection of national statistics in order to ensure that they are comparable;

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Member States to spell out in their national statistics what costs society has to pay in connection with juvenile delinquency ~~when parents have failed to exercise their responsibility~~;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Member States to ~~spell out~~include in their national statistics wh, the state costs ~~society has to pay~~ in connection with juvenile delinquency ~~when parents have failed to exercise their responsibility~~;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas youth should not be perceived overall as a group-at-risk or a group particularly inclined to violence or crime; whereas stereotypes on youth upheld by the media and by the general public need to be addressed,

Amendment 80 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on national and international bodies, including the Fundamental Rights Agency, to undertake further research on the effectiveness of alternative punishments for juvenile delinquents, the impact of gender stereotypes in youth crime, the role played by media, the different experiences of boys and girls in relation to crime and violence and the role played by parents, schools and youth organisations in preventing youth crime;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Invites the Member States to include methods of natural family planning when sexual education is taught in high schools, by putting a particular emphasis on mutual respect between men and women ; calls the Member states to respect the choice of parents for the sexual education of their children;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls on national and international bodies to undertake further research on the effectiveness of alternative punishments for juvenile delinquents, the impact of stereotypes in youth crime, the role played by media, the different experiences of boys and girls in relation to crime, violence and pornography, the role of parents, schools, Churches and religious communities as well as youth organisations in preventing youth crime;

Amendment 83 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Urges Eurostat to develop further ~~indicator~~research and analysis serving to illustrate the long- term contribution ~~in invisible economic terms, beyond GDP,~~ that activities aimed at combating juvenile delinquency make to social cohesion and to the well- being of Member States;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Urges Eurostat to develop further indicators serving to illustrate the long- term contribution in invisible economic terms, beyond GDP, that activities aimed at combating juvenile delinquency make to social cohesion and to the well-being of Member States;deleted

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the appropriate national and international bodies to publish macroeconomic studies on the impact of effective parenting to build the human and social capacity of future generations in the light of measures to combat juvenile delinquency;deleted

Amendment 86 #

Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the appropriate national and international bodies to publish micro- and macroeconomic studies on the impact of ~~effective parenting to build the human and social capacity of future generations in the light of measures to combat~~violence and failure at school, the abandonment of parental responsibility and the role of associations working with young people in the field of juvenile delinquency;

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Urges the European Commission to take the measures needed to investigate and expose the effects on the human organism of the new and unfamiliar psychotropic substances known as ‘afterburners’; urges that information campaigns be undertaken on the damage caused by these substances;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to publish a study on the impact, not least on the budget, of gender mainstreaming processes for the purpose of assessing their relevance, effectiveness, long-term viability, and usefulness in terms of cost- effectiveness/added value, following the rule applied to every other European policy;deleted

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, whenever it submits a policy or legislative proposal, to produce and impact assessment showing, in the light of a long-term cost-benefit analysis, what effects the proposal will have in terms of intergenerational fairness and the actual exercise of family responsibility;deleted

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas now more than ever before, the behaviour of young people is strongly influenced by the media, but above all by the internet, and whereas juvenile delinquency is no longer confined to acts of violence against others, theft, gang crime, illegal smoking, drinking, and taking ~~socially accepted drugs such as cannabis,~~of soft and hard drugs, and the influence of cults, or suicidal acts, but it now also extends to e~~arly sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a prime vehicle~~xposure to pornography, dangerous games such as the ‘scarf game’ (voluntary strangulation), Jackass, and happy slapping, ~~gang rape, substances which are smoked, drunk, or injected, self-harm, or the glorification of anorexia, excesses of which teenagers can be bo~~all of which are phenomena spread and encouraged primarily by the in~~stigators and victims~~ternet,

Amendment 90 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, whenever it submits a policy or legislative proposal, to produce an impact assessment showing, in the light of a long-term cost-benefit analysis, what effects the proposal will have in terms of intergenerational fairness and the actual exercise of family responsibility;deleted

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Supports the French G-20 Chair, in its approach regarding the social consequences of globalisation and congratulates the rapporteur, Christine Boutin, on the preparations being made for the report;~~deleted

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on national law-makers to widen cooperation with civil society representatives to include organisations representing women/mothers and men/fathers, researchers, family or parents’ organisations, youth workers, social workers, ~~churches and religious communities recognised under current national law,~~ charities or humanitarian organisations, the media, and the police;

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on national law-makers to widen cooperation with civil society representatives to include organisations representing women/mothers and men/fathers, youth associations, researchers, family or parents’ organisations, youth workers, social workers, churches and religious communities recognised under current national law, charities or humanitarian organisations, the media, and the police;

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on national law-makers to widen cooperation with civil society representatives to include organisations representing women/mother and men/fathers, researchers, family or parents' organisations, youth workers, social workers, churches and religious communities recognised under current national law, charities or humanitarian organisations, the media and the police,;

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to further focus on the issue of youth crime by promoting synergies among different policy areas, namely education, youth, gender equality and social inclusion, and existing institutional mechanisms such as the Open Method of Coordination: in the youth field, in the field of Education and in the field of Social Inclusion;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Member States to support professional counselling networks for families, couples having difficulty parenting and adolescents with problems relating to at-risk lifestyles and forms of dependency;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on Member States to promote preventative policies aimed at enhancing the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of young people, for instance by increasing the range of extracurricular activities and sports that are available to them;

Amendment 99 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Points out that preventing juvenile delinquency requires measures to be taken in other areas of public policy, such as access to housing, employment, vocational training, equal opportunities, leisure and youth exchanges;

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Amendment 1 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

– having regard to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation to Member States concerning new ways of dealing with juvenile delinquency and the role of juvenile justice (Rec (2003) 20) of 24 September 2003,

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Invites the Member States and the social partners to ~~increase wages in the early childhood and education secto~~offer more possibilities for parents to be actively involved in their children’s lives from the start, by providing proper maternity and paternity leave, care leave and possibilities to adapt working hours to care tasks for both mothers and fathers;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Invites the Member States and the social partners to organise appropriate vocational training courses and to increase wages in the early childhood and education sectors;

Amendment 102 #

Constance LE GRIP, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls on the institutions to reflect on the subject of the creation of national wealth through work in the home by women and men in order to ascertain whether this is a form of sex discrimination;deleted

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

~~24. Calls on the institutions to reflect on the subject of the creation of national wealth through work in the home by women and men in order to ascertain whether this is a form of sex discrimination;~~deleted

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

~~25. Calls on the institutions to recognise professional and extra-professional activity, notably that of women, in terms of ‘life cycle’;~~deleted

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the ~~institutions to recognis~~Member States and the institutions to analyse the possibility of taking the professional and extra- professional activity~~, notably that of women, in terms of ‘life cycle’~~ into the consideration of national social protection schemes;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls on the Member States to establish re-education and social reintegration programmes for juvenile delinquents and to apply a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to adults, irrespective of their social status, who encourage teenagers to commit crimes, for example by helping them to obtain hard drugs, cannabis or other harmful substances;deleted

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls on the Member States to establish ~~re-~~educational and social reintegration programmes for juvenile delinquents and to apply a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to adults, irrespective of their social status, who encourage teenagers to commit crimes, for example by helping them to obtain hard drugs, cannabis or other harmful substances;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls on the Member States to establish re-education and social reintegration programmes for juvenile delinquents and to apply a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to adults, irrespective of their social status, who encourage teenagers to commit crimes, for example by helping them to obtain ~~hard drugs, cannabis or other harmful substance~~drugs;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Calls on member states to take in account that girls present a minority among youth delinquents, and to recognize the need to adapt conditions under which juvenile female perpetrators are held, tried and punished;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Calls on the Member States to pay particular attention to families and schools; the general, further and professional education of minors; children’s activities outside school; employment; teaching minors, their parents, teachers and other specialists about legal matters; providing information on the consequences of drug use and on informal groups of minors; and providing psychological assistance to children and their parents;

Amendment 112 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)

26b. Calls on all state, public and private institutions, such as schools, truancy officers, police, support agencies, and others to be sensitive to differences between boys and girls in monitoring, preventing, and tackling youth delinquency;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the Member States to step up their measures to prevent gender violence among young people and to improve collaboration between the individuals and milieus affected, such as the family, school, the public space ~~and~~, the media and youth associations; underscores the importance of conducting campaigns to raise awareness of the various types of violence against women and of combating sexist stereotypes;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the Commission and Member States to step up their measures to prevent gender violence among young people and to improve collaboration between the individuals and milieus affected, such as the family, school, the public space and the media; underscores the importance of conducting campaigns to raise awareness of the various types of violence against women and of combating sexist stereotypes;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the Member States to step up their measures to prevent gender violence among young people ~~and to improve~~through specific action in the area of education and combating sexist stereotypes and through better collaboration between the individuals and milieus affected, such as the family, school, the public space and the media; underscores the importance of conducting campaigns to raise awareness of the various types of violence against women and of combating sexist stereotypes; calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a database of recommendations for preventing juvenile delinquency;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Calls on the Member States to support and promote the operational programmes launched in connection with the European Alliance for Families; calls on the Commission to step up the development of tools providing a systematic basis for the exchange of good practice and for research in this area;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

~~28. Invites the institutions to recognise the importance of the educative role of family members, focusing on the role of older people who have left the labour market;~~deleted

Amendment 118 #

Sari ESSAYAH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Urges Member States to seek solutions which are as family-oriented as possible rather than centralised institutional solutions if a child or young person has to be taken into care and placed outside the family;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Invites Member States to introduce school-based programs focused on improving school climate, conflict resolution and mediation skills;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Wishes to encourage a discussion on the gender equality policy in the labour market to enable the women and men who so wish to participate actively in the public and individual actions aimed at c~~urbing juvenile delinquency and incivility~~ountering the development of juvenile delinquency, in particular violent crime, and the increasing antisocial behaviour of young people which manifests itself in a worrying lack of a sense of responsibility and tolerance;

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

~~29. Calls on the authorities to take the steps required to put women and men in a better position to choose how they wish to achieve work-life balance;~~deleted

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Calls on the authorities to take the steps required to ~~put~~enable women and men ~~in a better position to choose how they wish~~ to achieve work-life balance;

Amendment 122 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Calls on ~~the authoriti~~Commission and Member States to take the steps required to ~~put~~enable women and men ~~in a better position to choose how they wish to achieve work-life balance~~to achieve a better work- life balance among others by offering proper maternity, paternity, parental and care leave, and by ensuring adequate access to affordable child care facilities;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Calls on the authorities to take the steps required to put women and men in a better position to choose how they wish to achieve work-life balance, with due regard for the principle of equality between women and men;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

~~30. Calls on the Member States to promote fiscal policy framed in such a way as to allow for the financial obligations entailed, notably the costs inherent in the different types of childcare;~~deleted

Amendment 125 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Member States to promote fiscal policy ~~framed in such a way as to allow for the financial obligations entailed, notably~~in which to encourage the allocation of more resources for the costs inherent in the different types of childcare;

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Invites the European Commission and Member States to further raise awareness and introduce campaigns and programs for Internet safety. Foremost, they should focus on teaching parents what are the risks of unrestricted use of Internet by children and how to keep them safe from illegal and harmful online content;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt constructive measures in support of women and men, for instance to make it easier for them to return to work after a period of caring for their children, by promoting policies designed to facilitate (re-)entry into the labour market with a view to enabling them to regain financial independence;

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. whereas the subject of work in the home needs to be discussed with particular reference to the gender pay gap, which affects parenting choices and the uptake of maternity, paternity, adoption, parental and family leave, in order to ascertain whether this is a form of sexual discrimination;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls that Article 18(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child enshrines the role of parents as the primary public measure for ensuring the best interests of the child ~~and requires states to actively support parents~~;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls that Article 18(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child enshrines the role of parents as the primary public measure for ~~ensuring~~providing for the needs and acting in the best interests of their child ~~and requires states to activel~~ren, also recalls that states have undertaken to give every support to parents in fulfilling their parental responsibilities;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls that Article 18(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child enshrines the ~~role of~~principle that parents or, as the ~~primary public measure~~case may be, legal guardians, have the primary responsibility for ensuring the best interests of the child and requires states to actively support ~~parents~~this principle;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Reiterates that together with parents, early childhood teachers and other caregivers can be crucial buffers in protecting children from violence and delinquent behaviour;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that suspects, including juvenile suspects are innocent until proven guilty and that they are entitled to all fair trial rights under the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights; Strongly supports the Roadmap on Procedural Rights and looks forward to the upcoming Commission proposal concerning vulnerable suspects;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

– having regard to the Green Paper entitled ‘Improving the mental health of the population – Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union’ (COM(2005)0484), which refers to the public costs to penal and judicial systems arising from childhood behavioural disturbances and disorders,

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the fact that these international institutions do not give adequate consideration to the socioeconomic aspects of juvenile delinquency and are not as explicit about the overall material conditions required in order to rule out direct or indirect discrimination against women and men on the labour market;deleted

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the fact that these international institutions do not give adequate consideration to the socioeconomic aspects of juvenile delinquency ~~and are not as explicit about the overall material conditions required in order to rule out direct or indirect discrimination against women and men on the labour market~~;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the fact that the~~se international institutions do not give adequate consideration to the socioeconomic aspects of juvenile delinquency and are not~~ socioeconomic aspects of juvenile delinquency have still not been subjected to thorough scientific study, resulting in a lack of models for an integrated approach to the causes of the problem; previous discussion has not been as explicit about the overall material conditions required in order to rule out direct or indirect discrimination against women and men on the labour market;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the fact that ~~these~~member states as well as European and international institutions do not give adequate consideration to the socioeconomic aspects of juvenile delinquency and are not as explicit about the overall material conditions required in order to rule out direct or indirect discrimination against women and men on the labour market;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights the fact that ~~these int~~considernation~~al institutions do not give adequate consideratio~~ should be given to the socioeconomic aspects of juvenile delinquency ~~and are not as explicit about the overall material conditions required in order to rule out direct or indirect discrimination against women and men on the labour market~~while stereotyping large groups of the population should be avoided;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses the need for an objective estimate of the added macro-economic value of long-term activities aimed at combating juvenile delinquency in building and maintaining social cohesion and well-being of societies;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Is concerned about the tendency of the labour market to make men and women submit to ever-increasing demands in order to improve performance, which runs counter to the Union’s goal of achieving a competition-driven social economy geared to human needs as reflected in social relations;deleted

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 28 #

Constance LE GRIP

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)

– having regard to EU Commission’s approach and Parliament’s response on the EU strategy on the rights of the child, as adopted on 16 January 2008,

Amendment 30 #

Sari ESSAYAH

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Is concerned about the tendency of the labour market to make men and women submit to ever-increasing demands in order to improve performance, including in the wrong way in the sense that it results in excessive overtime, stress and work fatigue, which runs counter to the Union’s goal of achieving a competition-driven social economy geared to human needs as reflected in social relations;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Believes that in order to prevent delinquent behaviour, parents, teachers and social workers should meet children’s needs- to be safe and live in a supportive environment, to have positive role models and to be protected from exposure to violence;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Notes that the formal education system can be used as a key source for raising awareness about violence against women and challenging and eradicating gender stereotypes. Promising practices in this area include eliminating gender- based stereotypes in educational curricula; creating an aggressive behaviour management training, including gender-sensitivity training for teachers and offering specialised courses on human rights, including women’s rights;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part

5. ~~Adopt~~Endorses the following definitions of ~~the ‘United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of J~~‘juvenile delinquency’ by the Council of Europe:1 ‘juvenile’ means persons who have reached the aged of criminal responsibility but not the age of majority; however, it may also extend to those immediately below and above these ages, ‘delinquency’ means actions which are dealt with under criminal law. In some countries it also extends to antisocial and/or deviant behaviour which may be dealt with under administrative or civil law, ‘juvenile Jjustice ~~(Beijing Rules)’∗, which are the only international instrument that pro~~system’ is defined as the formal component of a wider approach for tacking youth crime; in addition to the youth court, is encompasses official bodies or agencies such as the police, the prosecution service, the legal profession, the probation servidce a ~~definition of ‘juvenile delinquency’ (paragraph 2.2):~~nd penal institutions works closely with related agencies such as health, education, social and welfare services and non- governmental bodies, such as victim and witness support;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

~~∗ UN General Assembly Resolution 40/33 of 29 November 1985. 1 Council of Europe, Children and Juvenile Justice, October 2009~~5a. Points out that juvenile delinquency is one particular constituent of global delinquency and that its level counts as a measure of the moral health of society; Or. lt

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that juvenile delinquency now also extends to dangerous games, gender violence, rape or gang rape, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a prime vehicle, abuse of substances which are smoked, drunk, or injected, and eating disorders, excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victims;deleted

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that juvenile delinquency now also extends to dangerous games, gender violence, rape or gang rape, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a ~~prime~~ vehicle,; abuse of substances which are smoked, drunk, or injected, ~~and eating disorders,~~ excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victims;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that juvenile delinquency now also extends to dangerous games, gender violence, rape or gang rape, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, ~~for~~ which ~~the Internet has become a prime vehicle~~young people mainly encounter via the Internet, abuse of substances which are smoked, drunk, or injected, and eating disorders, ~~excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victim~~which generally stem from local pressure, applied consciously or not, coupled with teenagers’ poorly bolstered sense of self-esteem and are linked to all kinds of other excesses;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that juvenile delinquency now also extends to dangerous games, gender violence, rape or gang rape, ~~early sexualis~~bullying and intimidation and exposure to pornography, ~~for which the Internet has become a prime vehicle,~~ abuse of substances which are smoked, drunk, or injected~~, and eating disorders, excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victims~~;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that juvenile delinquency now also extends to dangerous games, gender violence, rape or gang rape, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a ~~prime~~ vehicle, ~~abuse of substances which are smoked, drunk, or injected~~drug and alcohol abuse, and eating disorders, excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victims;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)

– having regard to the issue paper published on 19 June 2009 by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights entitled ‘Children and juvenile justice: proposals for improvements’ (CommDH/IssuePaper(2009)1),

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – point 1 (new)

(1) 6a. Is concerned at the dual risk of young people becoming victims: studies show that young people are statistically more likely to suffer adult violence whilst at the same time being the main targets of peer violence;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Reiterates its position that ‘it is difficult to classify precisely the reasons for which young people offend~~’1 .~~, the factors leading to antisocial and finally criminal forms of behaviour being different in each individual case, conditioned as they are by the experiences of each child or adolescent and the elements playing the most central role in their development: family, school, circles of friends and general economic and social circumstances1;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Reiterates its position that ‘it is difficult to classify precisely the reasons for which young people offend’~~2 .~~1 ; in this respect draws special attention to the need to research the nature and causes of female youth delinquency to help formulate a policy adapted to female perpetrators;

Amendment 43 #

Constance LE GRIP, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Agrees with the list of causes set out by the EESC: -– a broken home ~~and~~– studies in recent decades repeatedly show that half or even two thirds of crimes in one age group are committed by a small number of young people with behavioural difficulties who are characterised by desperate home circumstances and a lack of basic social attributes for life in society; the difficulties in balancing family life and work~~, both of~~; – situations which increasingly often result in a lack of attention and an absence of constraints and control for children~~; -~~ – socioeconomic marginalisation or poverty; -– truancy and academic failure; -– youth unemployment – integration into professional life and the appearance of steady companions were turning points even where there was a serious lack of social competence; -– the broadcasting of violent images and attitudes via some media or video games; – abuse of drugs and toxic substances, such as cannabis, or even excessive alcohol consumption; -– shortcomings in the teaching and passing on of social and civic values, such as obeying rules, solidarity, generosity, tolerance, respect for others, critical self- awareness, empathy, high standards of work, etc., which are being replaced in our ‘globalised’ societies by more utilitarian values like individualism, competitiveness or hyper-consumption, which in certain circumstances can generate a degree of detachment from society1 ; 1 European Economic and Social Committee, Opinion on The prevention of juvenile delinquency. Ways of dealing with juvenile delinquency and the role of the juvenile justice system in the European Union, OJ C 110, 9.5.2006, p. 75. ;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Agrees with the list of causes set out by the EESC: - a broken home and the difficulties in balancing family life and work, both of which increasingly often result in a lack of attention and an absence of constraints and control for children; - socioeconomic marginalisation or poverty; - truancy and academic failure; - youth unemployment; - the broadcasting of violent images and attitudes via some 1 European Economic and Social Committee, Opinion on The prevention of juvenile delinquency. Ways of dealing with juvenile delinquency and the role of the juvenile justice system in the European Union, OJ C 110, media or videogames; - abuse of drugs and toxic substances, such as cannabis, or even excessive alcohol consumption; - shortcomings in the teaching and passing on of social and civic values, such as obeying rules, solidarity, generosity, tolerance, respect for others, critical self- awareness, empathy, high standards of work, etc., which are being replaced in our ‘globalised’ societies by more utilitarian values like individualism, competitiveness or hyper-consumption, which in certain circumstances can generate a degree of detachment from society1;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Agrees with the list of causes set out by the EESC: - a broken home and the difficulties in balancing family life and work, both of which increasingly often result in a lack of attention and an absence of constraints and control for children; - socioeconomic marginalisation or poverty; - truancy and academic failure; - youth unemployment; - the broadcasting of violent images and attitudes via some media or videogames; abuse of drugs and toxic substances, such as cannabis, or even excessive alcohol consumption; - shortcomings in the teaching and passing on of social and civic values, such as obeying rules, solidarity, generosity, tolerance, respect 1 European Economic and Social Committee, Opinion on The prevention of juvenile delinquency. Ways of dealing with juvenile delinquency and the role of the juvenile justice system in the European Union, OJ C 110, for others, critical self-awareness, empathy, high standards of work, etc., which are being replaced in our ‘globalised’ societies by more utilitarian values like individualism, competitiveness or hyper-consumption, which in certain circumstances can generate a degree of detachment from society1 Stresses the need to support independent research regarding the causes of juvenile delinquency;

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Points out that investigation and prosecution of criminal acts perpetrated by juvenile offenders need to be sensitive to instances of delinquency that might involve a form of coercion, such as by a loverboy or peers, to ascertain culpability;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

~~1 European Economic and Social Committee, Opinion on The prevention of juvenile delinquency. Ways of dealing with~~8b. Calls on the European institutions and member states to conduct studies on causes of juvenile delinquency from a gender perspective, such as: statistics on gender divisions in juvenile delinquency ~~and~~, or the ~~role of the juvenile justice system in the European Union, OJ C 110, 9.5.2006, p. 75.~~ most common gender based factors causing juvenile delinquency;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

~~9. Considers that the family is the first place where social interaction occurs for children and that an extended family circle plays a vital role in prevention and rehabilitation;~~deleted

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the family is the first place where social interaction occurs for children and that a~~n extended family circle~~ nurturing home environment plays a vital role in prevention and rehabilitation;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)

– having regard to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation on social reactions to juvenile delinquency (Rec (87) 20E) of 17 September 1987,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the family is the first, formative place where social interaction occurs for children and that parents are also responsible for this interaction according to Member-State law and international agreements; an extended family circle can plays a vital role in prevention and rehabilitation; in view of the current social circumstances and the steady decrease in the number of people supported by a broad, stable family network, there is a need to give more thought to alternative models such as stand-in parents and formulate new, combined models on the basis of data from positive experiences;

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the family is the first place where social interaction occurs for children and that an extended family circle plays a vital role in prevention and ~~rehabilitation;~~social reintegration; also takes the view that other socio-economic factors play a role in influencing children’s development,

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Recalls that family mainstreaming, which also approaches different policies (e.g. social, educational, and financial policies as well as criminal legislation etc.) from the family perspective, is a key instrument for coordinating efforts aimed at preventing behaviour leading to juvenile crime;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

~~10. Recognises that schools help to mould young people’s social skills;~~deleted

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

~~10. Recognises that schools help to mould young people’s social skills;~~deleted

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recognises that schools ~~help~~also help considerably to mould young people’s social skills, as they are the place where children are left alone for the first time to experience contact with an unfamiliar community;

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Recognises that in order to intercept the first signs of delinquent behaviour, strong focus on schools is necessary, as they represent the second most important socializing factor in further developing social skills of young people; recommends member states to adopt adequate measures such as regular psychology counselling hours at school, etc., that would facilitate cooperation between parents, schools and psychologists/counsellors to provide support for children in need;

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

~~11. Encourages social services, where appropriate, to monitor behaviour while ensuring that this is not seen as stigmatising or restricting young people;~~deleted

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Encourages social services, where appropriate, to monitor deviant behaviour while ensuring that this is not seen as stigmatising or restricting young people;

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Encourages social services, where appropriate, to monitor behaviour while ensuring that this is not seen as stigmatising or restricting young people; programmes tailored to specific cases have, however, achieved very significant results;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)

– having regard to Council document 17593/09/CRIMORG 187 of 15 December 2009,

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Invites the Member States to improve teacher training, to promote cooperation between parents and teachers, and to take young people’s views into account within the framework of the applicable rules;deleted

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Invites the Member States to improve teacher training~~, to promote cooperation between parents and teachers, and to take young people’s views into account~~ and reinforce teachers’ sense of responsibility towards the children in their care; invites the Member States to promote cooperation between parents and teachers on the one hand and public social services on the other and to take into account the views of children but above all of young people within the framework of the applicable rules;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Invites the Member States to improve teacher training, to promote cooperation between parents ~~and~~, teachers, social mediators and youth associations, and to take young people’s views into account within the framework of the applicable rules;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Asks national educational authorities to develop training for teachers, administrative staff and other groups dealing with children and youth for example, health and social service professionals and police, to promote ways to engage young people in gender equality - this should include sessions in which adult staff examine their own views about gender equality and assumptions about youth role in society with particular attention to violent and aggressive behaviour;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

~~13. Invites schools to encourage extracurricular, artistic and sporting activities;~~deleted

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Invites parents and schools to encourage extracurricular, artistic and sporting activities as a necessary counterbalance to the ever-increasing pressure to achieve results; in this context, projects such as ‘big sister/brother’ might serve as a buffer, since the people involved do not belong to the immediate family circle, young people find it in many ways easier to address problems, and they will offer more competent advice than friends of the same age (the second reference group); a similar effect – one which would be useful particularly in the case of the last of the causes given by the EESC (the insufficient provision and handing down of pro-social values, solidarity, respect and empathy) – might be comprehensively achieved through ‘local grandmother / grandfather’-type projects;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Invites the Member States, local authorities and schools to encourage and organise extracurricular, artistic and sporting activities with help from community associations;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Maintains that, in order to effectively combat juvenile delinquency, an integrated and effective school, social, family and educational policy must be implemented which will help to ensure that social and civic values are passed on and that young people adjust to society at an early age; considers that there is also a need for a policy geared to greater economic and social cohesion and to reducing social inequalities and countering social exclusion and poverty, with particular reference to child poverty;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the Member States to support education policies aimed at preventing young people from dropping out of education, and to compare best practices in this field;

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

~~14. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to ensure the implementation of the Europe 2020 and the Education and Training 2020 strategies;~~deleted

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 d (new)

– having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘Crime prevention in the European Union’ (COM(2004)0165),

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the competent bodies to assess the public policies concerning the effectiveness of alternative punishments for juvenile delinquents, the impact of gender stereotypes in youth crime, the role played by media, the different experiences of boys and girls in relation to violence, and the role played by parents, schools and youth organisations in ~~preventing youth crime~~the stress factors identified;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the competent bodies to assess the public policies concerning the effectiveness of alternative punishments for juvenile delinquents, the impact of gender stereotypes in youth crime, the role played by media, the different experiences of boys and girls in relation to violence, and the role played by parents, schools and youth ~~organis~~associations in preventing youth crime; calls on those bodies to compare their experiences and practices;

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the competent bodies to assess the ~~public policies concerning the~~ effectiveness of alternative punishments for juvenile delinquents, the impact of ~~gender~~ stereotypes in youth crime, the role played by media, the different experiences of boys and girls in relation to violence, and the role played by parents, schools and youth organisations in preventing youth crime; calls on the competent bodies to be sensitive to gender when monitoring youth delinquency;

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on member states to take into account following principles, i.e. prevent offending and re-offending, (re)socialise and (re)integrate offenders; stresses the utmost importance to address the needs and interests of victims of juvenile delinquents;

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Member States – via national telecommunications authorities – to ensure adequate monitoring of, and penalties for, media content and images that incite violence, sadism, racism and sexual discrimination, and to promote educational and instructive audiovisual and multimedia content;

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to promote and strengthen the role of voluntary associations, which enable young people to gain experience of commitment and personal and social responsibility, and notes that such experience is highly educational, including from a civic perspective;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to support professional counselling networks for families, couples having difficulty parenting, and adolescents with problems relating to at-risk lifestyles and forms of dependency;deleted

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to support professional counselling networks for families, couples having difficulty parenting, and adolescents with problems relating to ~~at-risk lifestyles and~~ forms of dependency;

Amendment 78 #

Teresa JIMÉNEZ-BECERRIL BARRIO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to support professional counselling networks ~~for families, couples having difficulty parenting, and adolescents with problems relating to at-risk lifestyles and forms of dependency~~, in particular those working in the area between families and public social services; parents would in many cases gladly seek advice but would hesitate to do so from the social services – the same is true for adolescents with problems who seek a safe refuge without having to face the authority of the state which lies behind the public social services;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Emphasises the importance of educating gender equality starting from a young age as an early discriminative perception towards women might have a negative impact on violence against women;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 e (new)

– having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee entitled ‘The prevention of juvenile delinquency. Ways of dealing with juvenile delinquency and the role of the juvenile justice system in the European Union’1,

Amendment 80 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

~~17. Calls on the Member States to offer special support for migrants and to guarantee access to housing, basic education, health services and the labour market;~~deleted

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Member States to promote the adoption of measures aimed at providing counselling for children encountering social integration problems and combating discrimination against members of their community of origin, and action to draw up and implement programmes to combat all types of violence based on social origin;deleted

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Member States to promote the adoption of measures aimed at ~~providing counselling for~~supporting children encountering social integration problems and combating discrimination against members of their community of origin, and action to draw up and implement programmes to combat all types of violence based on social origin;

Amendment 83 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses that young people who live in poverty are more likely to face problems, and calls on the competent institution to consider working with families in difficulty as an alternative to foster care;deleted

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses that young people who live in poverty are more likely to face problems, and calls on the competent institutions in all member states to consider working with families in difficulty as an alternative to foster care;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Points out that in order to increase the chances in life of children and youths, it is vital to combat poverty and discrimination, ensure access to quality education, housing, facilities for young people, etc.;

Amendment 86 #

Constance LE GRIP, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Is convinced of the educational benefits of giving teenagers their say in order to avoid blind law-and-order policy, as exemplified by the European project ‘Do you know where your child is now?’, as a means of prevention;deleted

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. 20 Is convinced of the educational benefits of giving teenagers their say ~~in order to avoid blind law-and-order polic~~with a view to addressing the problem of juvenile delinquency appropriately, as exemplified by the European project ‘Do you know where your child is now?’, as a means of prevention;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Is convinced of the ~~educational benefits of giving teenagers their say~~importance of active involvement of parents in juvenile crime prevention; recognizes the educational benefits of national awareness campaigns or helplines focused on helping parents ‘reading the signs’ in their children’s behaviour; recommends to include teenagers and parents in designing and launching public awareness campaigns on juvenile crime in order to avoid blind law-and-order policy, as exemplified by the European project ‘Do you know where your child is now?’~~, as a means of prevention~~;

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

~~21. Emphasises that the needs of women and men are often expressed in different ways;~~deleted

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 21 June 2007 on juvenile delinquency, the role of women, the family and society1 1 OJ C 146 E, 12.6.2008, p. 344.

Amendment 90 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

~~21. Emphasises that the needs of women and men are often expressed in different ways;~~deleted

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

~~21. Emphasises that the needs of women and men are often expressed in different ways;~~deleted

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Points out that recent research has shown that fathers who are involved in their babies lives immediately before and after birth take a more active role in their upbringing in the years after; in this respect, underlines the necessity to speed up the efforts to close existing pay gap between men and women that affects the uptake of maternity, paternity, parental, and family leave;

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Insists that the nature and causes of female youth delinquency should be researched in order to formulate a policy adapted to female perpetrators;

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

~~22. Calls on the institutions to examine in more detail the needs expressed by boys and men in the area of equal opportunities and work-life balance.~~deleted

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

~~22. Calls on the institutions to examine in more detail the needs expressed by boys and men in the area of equal opportunities and work-life balance.~~deleted

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Considers it essential to promote family-friendly policies (inter alia through new corporate social responsibility criteria), in particular for single-parent families, so as to afford them the necessary conditions for work-life balance;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

~~23. Invites the Member States and the social partners to increase wages in the early childhood and education sectors;~~deleted

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

~~23. Invites the Member States and the social partners to increase wages in the early childhood and education sectors;~~deleted

Amendment 99 #