In the Putuo District People's Procuratorate, there is a "Dandelion Unprosecuted Team", established in 2018, which is a procuratorial team specializing in the judicial protection of minors. Its name ** is homophonic to the word "Pu" in Putuo, and dandelion means spreading the seeds of love and hope. Through the integration of juvenile criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation prosecutions, the team helps juvenile delinquents who are floating around like "dandelion seeds" to "take root and sprout" again, and protects juveniles who are as delicate as "dandelion flowers" to "bloom brilliantly" in the sun.
The team has been awarded the honorary titles of Advanced Collective for the Implementation of the National Program for the Development of Women and Children, Outstanding Unit of the Supreme People's Procuratorate's National Campus Tour Activities, Shanghai 38 Red Flag Collective, and Shanghai Women's Civilization Post.
Caption: Putuo District People's Procuratorate "Dandelion Unprosecuted Team" work results report. Photo courtesy of the Putuo District Procuratorate.
Build a social support system.
In order to realize the education, probation and rescue of juveniles who have committed crimes, the team explored the establishment of the "Dandelion Social Cultivation Center for Minors", the first private non-governmental organization for the protection of minors in the country that is substantially registered and socially operated, and recruited more than 170 caring enterprises as member units to provide judicial social services such as education and correction, social practice, and vocational training for more than 40 juveniles involved in the case, so as to help them regain confidence and return to society.
Include the protection of juveniles' civil and administrative rights and interests, assistance, and so forth, in the scope of services, and coordinate the implementation of multiple assistance for 105 victims, such as judicial assistance, temporary guardianship, psychological counseling, medical treatment, and return to school and employment. This work has been selected as one of the top ten projects of "Rule of Law for the People" in Shanghai in 2021.
Solid homeschooling guidance.
In order to solve the family problems behind the juvenile violations and crimes, and strengthen the sense of guardianship responsibility, the team explored the work of family education and guidance for minors involved in cases, and successively carried out family education guidance for more than 200 groups of families of minors involved in cases through the formulation and issuance of the "Supervision and Guardianship Order", and carried out activities such as parent-child group health, parent salons, and psychological group support, etc., to "invigorate blood and eliminate blood stasis" and empower parents to effectively improve parent-child relationships and effectively prevent the recurrence of juvenile violations and crimes. The District Committee of the United Youth League, the District Women's Federation, and the District Education Bureau jointly unveiled the city's first family education guidance base, and jointly produced a series of Dandelion family education guidance classes, continuously improving the level of specialization, standardization, and socialization of family education guidance, and building a solid family protection network for minors.
Promote the establishment of rule of law campuses.
Through this project, it has achieved full coverage of procurators serving as vice-principals for rule of law in schools in their jurisdictions, customized the menu of rule of law lecture tours, and carried out more than 100 rule of law lecture tours, with an audience of more than 60,000 people. Through the first immersive career experience week, the procuratorial open day was held, and various forms of legal education activities such as WeChat, micro-classes, micro-theaters, and micro-comics were produced to help students buckle the first button in life. The Education Bureau of the United District set up the city's first "school inspection and consultation room", and the procurator helped solve a number of "difficult and miscellaneous diseases" in schools through "looking, hearing, asking, and cutting", and helped the construction of a safe and legal campus.
At present, there are more than 1,700 registered users and more than 170 consultations, forming a fingertip protection force, and the work experience is promoted in the city. Thoroughly implement the "No. 1 Procuratorial Recommendation", and keep the "big bad wolf" with a bad criminal record such as ** out of the campus, and the case was rated as a typical case of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Implement assistance for children in difficulty.
Give full play to the functions of civil procuratorial supervision, based on the role and mission of the state's guardians, and carefully guard growth. Establish a coordination mechanism for the protection of children in distress with civil affairs, hospitals, public security, courts, etc., coordinate the implementation of temporary guardianship for nearly 10 children, support the prosecution of 8 people in 5 cases of revocation of guardianship of disqualified parents in accordance with the law, and handle the city's first case of supporting hospitals and welfare institutions to recover medical expenses and child support from guardians. The first "juvenile guardianship qualification inspection system" is the first to give families who are willing to repent and whose family ties can still be maintained a chance to "reunite". Handled the city's first case of confirming guardianship to support prosecution, helped the children of dementia in aid stations to implement national guardianship, and solved urgent and difficult problems such as settlement and schooling. The city's first batch of doctors were appointed liaison officers for mandatory reporting, giving full play to the role of "sentinels" in the discovery and reporting of cases of violations against minors, and the case was rated as one of the top ten cases for safeguarding the rights and interests of women and children in Shanghai in 2023.
Dandelions are dancing elves and endless hopes. The team will always practice the judicial concept of "respecting the law, prudent punishment, helping the heart, educating people, and consolidating the source", adhere to the exploration and practice of juvenile procuratorial and judicial protection, create more warm, in-depth and influential legal products, and escort the healthy growth of minors.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Xie Min.