Making assessment truly individual: the importance of the philosophical concept of objectification of man for the interpretation of the right of children in conflict with the law to individual assessment
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15220%2F25%3A73630728" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15220/25:73630728 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://cadmus.eui.eu/entities/publication/57b056a8-c972-515b-8e3a-6a16a15a3781" target="_blank" >https://cadmus.eui.eu/entities/publication/57b056a8-c972-515b-8e3a-6a16a15a3781</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2924/EJLS.2025.003" target="_blank" >10.2924/EJLS.2025.003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Making assessment truly individual: the importance of the philosophical concept of objectification of man for the interpretation of the right of children in conflict with the law to individual assessment
Original language description
The right to individual assessment of children in conflict with the law is an integral part of European criminal law. However, understanding this right remains largely intuitive. This leads us, in keeping with the historical roots of the practice of individual assessment, to equate it with variously focused professional diagnostics such as psychiatric, psychological, or pedagogical diagnostic tools or social work assessment frameworks not based on a dialogue with the assessed persons. Drawing on the concept of ‘objectification of man’, this article submits that the traditional understanding of individual assessment contradicts both the attribute of the individual and the nature of a subjective right. The concept of objectification of man is chosen because it may be - at least in some constitutional traditions, such as Germany and Czechia - directly linked to human dignity as a constitutional value. This article, nevertheless, relies on the philosophical concept of objectification as it appears in the work of Adorno, Hejdánek, and Marcel. Unlike the constitutional concept, the philosophical one does not foreground the aspect of instrumentalisation, but that of abstraction and subsumption. The article argues that the philosophical concept of objectification of man allows us to formulate a strong link to anti-discrimination concepts of international human rights law, and, thus, enables us to reconceptualise the right to individual assessment primarily as a right to social availability and dialogue.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Legal Studies
ISSN
1973-2937
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
IT - ITALY
Number of pages
50
Pages from-to
"27–76"
UT code for WoS article
001468673600003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105002609923