DCI – Riyadh Guidelines

Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Havana 1990) gave birth to two important

Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of juvenile Justice (Resolution

40/33). In this respect , it is very interesting and important to link these

diffrent instruments, as mentioned in point 8 of the Preamble of the Guidelines

where the Secretary General is requested to issue a compendium on the different

Juvenile Delinquency, also called the Riyadh Guidelines, refer to an important

international experts’ meeting on the draft texts held in the Saudi Arabian

capital (1988) , are also interesting for many other reasons. they reveal for

example a rather positive, pro-active apporach to prevention and are , perhaps

for that reason, very comprehensive. In the meantime , the Guidelines certainly

express a growing awareness that children are fully-fleged human beings, an

attitude which was far from dominant in Western (orientated) countries in the

19th century, but which is rather obvious in other very recent regulations as