According to the Supreme People's Procuratorate's website, on June 6, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued the White Paper on Juvenile Procuratorial Work (1) (hereinafter referred to as the White Paper), disclosing for the first time that procuratorial organs have strengthened the integration of the "four major procuratorates" to perform their duties and deepen the comprehensive and comprehensive judicial protection of minors.
The white paper analyzes and summarizes the data on the handling of cases by the "four major procuratorates" involving minors, the special reporting to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, strengthening two-way protection, strengthening the integrated performance of duties, promoting the overall implementation of the "six major protections", improving the effectiveness of publicity and education on the rule of law, promoting the construction of specialization and standardization, and deepening theoretical research, and sorts out the case incidents, typical practices, and innovative mechanisms that have a certain impact on juvenile procuratorial and judicial protection work.
The white paper shows that from 2020 to 2022, the procuratorial organs accepted and reviewed the arrest and prosecution of juvenile criminal suspects, showing an overall upward trend in juvenile crime, the proportion of juvenile crimes increased, the crime of minors suspected of helping information network criminal activities increased significantly, the proportion of juvenile drug crimes continued to decline, the number of school bullying and violent crimes continued to decline, and the rate of juvenile recidivism continued to decline.
The white paper also shows that the total number of crimes against minors has decreased, but sexual assault cases are still on the rise, the number of crimes of organizing minors to violate public security management activities has increased, and crimes against minors under the age of 14 have increased. A total of 2053,2022 "one-stop" inquiry and rescue areas for juvenile victims have been established nationwide. In 1, procuratorial organs strengthened diversified and comprehensive assistance to juvenile victims, rescuing a total of 7,2 minors, distributing 2 million yuan in relief funds, carrying out psychological counseling and psychological assessment for 1,3593 person-times, assisting in 2858,<> life placements, and helping <>,<> people return to school.
The white paper revealed that in 2022, the procuratorate carried out the work of "supervising guardianship orders" in handling cases involving minors, and targeted supervision and guidance for guardians to effectively and effectively perform guardianship duties, and issued a total of 57425,197 "supervision and guardianship orders", an increase of 1.3368% year-on-year. In addition to guardianship supervision, procuratorial organs handled a total of <>,<> cases involving minors such as the recovery of maintenance fees, the control of school dropouts, and other cases involving minors.
The white paper points out that procuratorial organs adapt to the new requirements of juvenile judicial protection in the new era, give full play to the advantages of centralized and unified handling of juvenile procuratorial business, play a good "combined fist" of protecting the rights and interests of minors, strive to realize the "chemical reaction" of the "four major procuratorate" functions of minors, and protect the lawful rights and interests of minors to the greatest extent. In 2022, a total of 9700,3217 public interest litigation cases on the protection of minors were filed, and 32,4 public interest litigation leads were found and filed in juvenile criminal cases, accounting for <>.<>% of the total number of cases filed.