Rethinking Juvenile Delinquency Penal System & Spatial Configuration

Name(s): 
Zaina Khatib
University: 
Birzeit University
Name(s) of instructor(s): 
Shaden Qasem
Country: 
Palestine
Brief About The Project: 

This project is a response to the essential need of an alternative system, methodologically and spatially, for reformatories of children who performed a law-violating act. The idea and design are based on the marginalized fact that juveniles are not criminals but victims of the social act against them
The proposed project works within three consecutive stages to eliminate the causes behind the existence of ‘juveniles’, including lack of social understanding and support, emerging the inner capabilities, talents, and skills of juveniles to endorse positive energy and restructure negative energy

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