Editorial

With the first number of the journal we like to thank every single person who made this
project real, especially to Marian Preda, the dean of Sociology and Social Work Faculty from
Bucharest University, for his non-conditioned support.
We strongly believe that Youth in the Justice is a very powerful resource in the shaping a
new justice system and so, we encourage new and innovative ideas.
With this first number we salute the initiative of the five (5) first young people who
express themselves in the following articles What is the meaning of Logotherapy, Mediation in
Probation Arena, The Relationship between the Probation Officer and the Parolee, Human
Trafficking Victims in the Probation System, Reintegrating Young Inmates in Workforce and
Mental Health in Prison. All this subjects release a new potential recommendation to change
pressing issues currently in the justice system.
Logotherapy is what has been called the third Viennese school of psychiatry and brings
a new direction in approaching a new perspective in reintegrating an ex-inmate, for example. The
theory is focused on sense of life and especially, on searching of meaning.
Restorative justice brings automatically mediation context. So, the question after this
article is: Is the restorative justice better then retributive justice?
The relationship between a probation officer and a parolee is very important. How do you
make it a professional, responsible and a successful one?
How can you coagulate human trafficking with probation system? The answer should be
simple, through the victim. But how the probation officer should work with the victim? Is there a
context?
There is already a known situation regarding world financial crisis, so how can you talk
about reintegrating inmates in working field? What are the conditions and what are the
perspectives?
Before being a part of European Union, in Romania, mental health in prison was a strange
phenomenon, for the professional working in prisons. If you were to ask a social worker, for
example, how many mental ill inmates were in the penal system, she or he would look if the
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inmates were disabled. Upon our adherence to the EU standards on mental health in prison was
completed the statistics were alarming: many inmates with mental health problems and no special
programs for these.
We also, hope that these perspectives will not remain as they were spoken; we encourage
you to express your opinions. We welcome you to interact and comment the subjects written in
this journal so that, we can debate and extract the best solutions.
We hope that starting with this first number of the journal to begin a movement of youth
preoccupied by the justice domain and definably, we begin a new context of solutions in this
arena.

The Redaction Team,