“The probable disappearance of socio-judicial associations announces the end of the hope of functional and humanist justice” | EUROtoday

LAt the shut of the States General of Integration and Probation, the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, made bulletins the consequence of which is, in the long run, the disappearance of the socio-judicial associations which have labored for greater than forty years with the French courts.

The Minister of Justice has simply determined, with none session with the associations, an experiment aimed on the resumption by the jail integration and probation providers (SPIP) of a part of the socio-educational judicial controls and fast social investigations. These investigations carried out between the time of the investigation and the judgment, most frequently in an emergency, enlighten the magistrates on the scenario of the perpetrators, making it doable to individualize the sentences and to battle in opposition to recidivism.

Robert Badinter [1928-2024] had wished to entrust the socio-educational help of offenders to professionals belonging to the non-profit associative sector.

Efficiency and suppleness

At the time of the latter’s entry into the Pantheon, the present Keeper of the Seals brutally calls into query this humanist heritage of justice. It takes the alternative view of all of the successive Keepers of the Seals who’ve supported and amplified the motion of associations in complementarity with SPIPs, with an goal of effectivity and suppleness.

Today, 80% of the measures which precede the judgment are carried out by socio-judicial associations.

At no time did the Minister of Justice think about it helpful to seek the advice of the associative sector, and even to listen to us. Worse, no evaluation of the standard of the service offered, no severe evaluation of the prices of those selections, no impression research have been carried out. The ministry is enterprise a significant reform with none democratic debate, although the upcoming municipal and presidential elections must be a chance to query the state of justice.

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