My PhD research aims to explore in depth and systematically the gaps that exist between the normative ‘description’ of diversion and its reality in practice, shedding a light on what diversion is, as opposed to what it should be.
Read More PhD on diversion practices in child justice systems across Europe2018-2020 | As lead consultant in a team of researchers, I harmonised and consolidated data on diversion and restorative justice with child offenders, collected from six African countries: Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya.
Read More PAN-AFRICAN RESEARCH ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WITH CHILDREN2018- 2019 | I was part of the team leading the research and drafting of chapter 5 – Children deprived of liberty in the Administration of Justice for the UN Global Study on children deprived of liberty.
Read More UN GLOBAL STUDY ON CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF THEIR LIBERTY2017 – 2019 | The EU funded project AWAY aimed to ensure that multidisciplinary professionals are more aware and better equipped concerning diversion for arrested/suspected children.
As an independent consultant for Terre des hommes, I compiled and drafted the final report of the project.
Read More AWAY: ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO ADDRESS YOUTH2013- 2015 | As independent research consultant for IJJO, I contributed to the European study of good practices collected from Austria, Belgium, England and Wales, Italy, Scotland, Sweden, in the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Read More KEEPING YOUTH AWAY FROM CRIME: SEARCHING FOR BEST EUROPEAN PRACTICES
Silvia Randazzo consulting 