Children and young people in custody : : Managing the risk /

Children and young people in custody : : Managing the risk / / ed. by Maggie Blyth, Chris Wright, Robert Newman.

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Over the last decade, the reformed youth justice system has seen increases in the numbers of children and young people in custody, a sharp rise in indeterminate sentences and the continuing deaths of young prisoners. The largest proportion of funding in youth justice at national level is spent on pr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Allen, Rob,
Baker, Kerry,
Blyth, Maggie,
Coles, Deborah,
Goldson, Barry,
Kemshall, Hazel,
Morgan, Rod,
Moseley, Joyce,
Newman, Robert,
Rose, Jim,
Wright, Chris,
HerausgeberIn:
Blyth, Maggie,
Newman, Robert,
Wright, Chris,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Researching Criminal Justice
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Physical Description:1 online resource (112 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Children in custody
  • Types of secure establishment
  • The cost of custody: whose responsibility?
  • Sentencing young people
  • Child deaths in the juvenile secure estate
  • Sentenced to education: the case for a ‘hybrid’ custodial sentence
  • Young people and parole: risk aware or risk averse?
  • Ten years on: conclusions

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