The Youth Protection from Involvement in Maritime Piracy: Criminological Study in Light of International Standards

• In Event: Organized Crime, Prevention and Protection

Abstract

Maritime Piracy is not a recent phenomenon, but as defined by the Article 101 of the United Nation Convention on the Law and the Sea of 1982, it is a new conception of the legal and criminological studies. In recent years, the number of Piracy is significantly increased. We study the U.N. International Convention on the Rights of Child provides in Article 32 that “states Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from any form of exploitation and any work that is likely to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development”. Obviously, the involvement the youth in piracy make children vulnerable. Several reasons for this phenomenon are indicated: poverty, high youth unemployment, and weak state structures that leads to a lack of social programming. The children involved in piracy groups are subject to the Paris Principles (2007). According to this text, the unlawful recruitment or use of children in these groups is a violation of children’s rights.
In this paper, first of all, we study this phenomenon, its causes and consequences in the criminological approaches and then, we analyze the youth protection against it with consideration the International standards.

Authors

• Ahmad Kabbaha, University of Nantes

• Hesam Seyyed Esfahani, University of Moncton

• Hamed Amin, University of Nantes