EXCLUSIVE – “Le Figaro Magazine” publishes extracts from the child psychiatrist’s next book, “Violent Minors, Inconsistent State. For a penal revolution.
The findings follow one another and are similar: juvenile delinquents are more and more numerous, young and violent. Faced with a phenomenon that Dr. Maurice Berger, after more than thirty-five years of experience, describes as soon “out of control”denial continues to reign. To the point that the statistical service of the Ministry of the Interior does not even provide data allowing it to be properly evaluated, as deplored in the information report published by the Senate in 2022 and entitled “Preventing juvenile delinquency. Avoid recurrence.”
The violent minor does not necessarily have to deal with the law, but when this is the case, it is too often overwhelmed. The fault of “an ideology that prevents us from looking at reality”accuses the child psychiatrist, whose new work is full of cases he has followed.
To overcome this blindness, Maurice Berger proposes radical solutions, starting with the abolition of the penal code for minors…
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