Educational Measures
On a juvenile perpetrator of a criminal offence, the following educational measures may be imposed:
a) Disciplinary measure of committal to a disciplinary centre for juveniles;
b) Measures of intensified supervision: on the part of the parents, adoptive parent or guardian, in a foster
home, or on the part of a competent social welfare body;
c) Institutional measures: committal to an educational institution, to an educational-reformatory home or
some other training establishment.
Article 88
Selection of Educational Measures
When selecting an educational measure, the court shall take into account the age of the juvenile, the
degree of his mental development, his psychological traits, his propensities, the motives from which he
perpetrated the deed, the education and upbringing he was as yet provided with, his environment and living
conditions, the gravity of his deed, whether an educational measure or punishment has previously been
imposed to him, and all other circumstances relevant to the imposition of educational measure.
Article 89
Committal to Disciplinary Centre for Juveniles
(1) The court shall impose the educational measure of committal to a disciplinary centre for juveniles when
it is necessary to exert an influence on the personality and conduct of a juvenile perpetrator of criminal
offence by means of appropriate short-term measures.
(2) A juvenile to whom a measure referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article has been imposed may be
committed by the court to the disciplinary centre:
a) For a specified number of hours on holidays, but for not more than four consecutive days of a
holiday;
b) For a specified number of hours during a day, but for not more than one month;
c) For a continuous stay over a specified number of days, totalling to not more than twenty days.
(3) In imposing a measure referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the court shall take account that the
juvenile does not fall behind in his regular studies or work due to the enforcement of the measure.
(4) The juvenile may be employed in the disciplinary centre with useful labour appropriate to his age, if he
or his legal guardian consents to the labour.
(5) In imposing the educational measure of committal to the disciplinary centre for juveniles, the court may
also impose the educational measure of intensified supervision on the part of the competent social welfare
body, which will be executed after the execution of the educational measure of committal to the disciplinary
centre for juveniles.
Article 90
Intensified Supervision on the Part of Parents, Adoptive Parent or Guardian
(1) The educational measure of intensified supervision on the part of parents, adoptive parent or guardian,
shall be imposed by the court if the parents, adoptive parent or guardian have failed in supervising the
juvenile, although they are capable of exercising such supervision.
(2) When imposing the educational measure referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the court may give
necessary instructions to the parent, adoptive parent or guardian, and order them to carry out particular duties
with respect to measures that need to be undertaken toward the education of the juvenile, toward his medical
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