The personality is in the foreground - not the idea of punishment

Youth welfare in criminal proceedings is a service for young people and adolescents from 14 to 21 years of age. It becomes active whenever juveniles (14 to 18) or adolescents (18 to 21) have committed a criminal offence. The legal basis for youth welfare in criminal proceedings is the Juvenile Courts Act (JGG) and the Social Code, Book Eight (SGB VIII). The focus of the proceedings is on the personality of the young person and not on the idea of punishment. Youth welfare in criminal proceedings has a neutral assessment function. It is a legally prescribed task of the youth welfare office.

  • Youth welfare in criminal proceedings

    The youth welfare service in criminal proceedings invites the young people concerned and their legal guardians to a counselling interview after notification by the police pursuant to section 70 JGG.

    Topics of conversation

    • Discussion of the background to the crime
    • Explanation of the course of events
    • Description of the current life situation
    • Assessment of criminal liability
    • Preparation for the main hearing
    • Opinion and proposal on the measure to be taken


    Our measures

    Youth welfare in criminal proceedings looks after juveniles and adolescents after the court hearing. It monitors the conditions and instructions ordered by the court:

    • Pedagogically supervised work assignments
    • Victim-offender mediation
    • Social group work
    • Anti-aggression training


    Youth welfare in criminal proceedings

    • counsels adolescents, their parents and adolescents who have come into conflict with the criminal law norm
    • informs about the course of the criminal proceedings and their consequences
    • accompanies the persons concerned throughout the criminal proceedings
    • reports on curriculum vitae, social environment, leisure time, problems and future plans
    • mediates and monitors the pedagogical instructions and requirements of the court

    The professionals of youth welfare in criminal proceedings are involved in the LOS association. The aim of the association is to support the youth welfare services in criminal proceedings in Beckum ideally, with personnel and financially, and thus to enable their activities for secondary and tertiary crime prevention in the future as well.

  • Prevention work

    Youth welfare in criminal proceedings / prevention work is active in many schools with offers within the framework of social group work. These are for example:

    • Coolness Training®
    • Training Cool Kids
    • Projects SOKO (Social Competence Training for Schools)
    • Red Card Project
    • and other trainings

    The individual offers are designed with the same content but different work modules for primary and secondary schools.

    In the trainings, which each cover several school days, the aim is to:

    • strengthened the personality of the individual pupils
    • Reduced latent propensity to violence
    • positive togetherness is promoted.

    Further projects such as the day project "4 u man", which deals specifically with the topic of bullying, are to expand the work that has been very positive so far.

    Social group work is not limited to schools, but is also carried out with and in other institutions.

  • Association LOS

    The non-profit organisation "Verein zur Förderung der Jugendgerichtshilfe Beckum e. V." was founded in 1997 by professionals from the field of youth welfare, but also interested parties from outside the profession. This was a reaction to the increasingly complex areas of work of youth welfare in criminal proceedings in Beckum in the years before.

    The aim of the association is to support the youth welfare service in criminal proceedings in Beckum ideally, in terms of personnel and financially and thus to enable their activities for secondary and tertiary crime prevention in the future as well. The support of the association has made it possible to implement many projects and ideas of youth welfare in criminal proceedings.

    Contact:
    Verein zur Förderung der Jugendgerichtshilfe Beckum e. V.

    1. Chair
    Frauke Schaberg

    2. Chairwoman
    Ariane Nießwandt