Italy: Empirical Findings

The book is the result of the second part of the European Commission fundedresearch project Protecting young suspects in interrogations: a study on safeguards and best practice. Th e project consists of a legal comparative study, an empiricalstudy and a merging of legal and empirical fi ndings and its aim is to identify legaland empirical patterns in the procedural protection of juvenile suspects during pretrial interrogation. The legal study underlying volume I consisted of a comparative research into existing procedural safeguards for juvenile suspects during interrogation in the legal frameworks of five selected Member States: Belgium,England and Wales, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands. The results of the empirical research as well as the merging of the legal and empirical findings resulting in a proposal for European minimum rules and best practice on the protection of juvenile suspects during interrogation is described in this second volume.