Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime
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Contents

  • Introduction and guidance
  • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
  • Introduction
  • 1 Child or adult?
  • 2 The age of criminal responsibility
  • 3 What the law says
  • 4 Taking court action
  • 5 A mind to a crime
  • 6 Children talk labels
  • 7 This session’s quiz
  • 8 Summary of Session 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
  • 2 Getting to know the youth justice system
    • 2.1 Unintended consequences
  • 3 Children in prison
  • 4 Wales makes a difference?
  • 5 Getting smaller, getting smarter?
  • 6 Different paths to youth justice
  • 7 This session’s quiz
  • 8 Summary of Session 2
  • Introduction
  • 1 An enlightenment idea?
  • 2 Hearing about panels
  • 3 Raising the age
  • 4 Children’s views of Hearings
  • 5 Young people and knife crime: a Scottish approach
  • 6 The language of justice
  • 7 This session’s quiz
  • 8 Summary of Session 3
  • Introduction
  • 1 What is restorative justice?
  • 2 From rough justice to restorative justice
  • 3 Restorative conferencing with young people in Northern Ireland
  • 4 Youth custody in Northern Ireland
  • 5 The age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland
  • 6 Moving on
  • 7 This session’s quiz
  • 8 Summary of Session 4
  • Introduction
  • 1 Bad girls?
  • 2 It’s different for girls
  • 3 Girls and the gangs
    • 3.1 A case study: Gina
  • 4 Possibilities, alternatives, changes
  • 5 This session’s quiz
  • 6 Summary of Session 5
  • Introduction
  • 1 Why race and racism matters
    • 1.1 What about ethnicity?
  • 2 Injustice and youth justice
  • 3 Youth, sub-cultures and resistance
  • 4 New generations, new voices
  • 5 Islamophobia and racism
  • 6 This session’s quiz
  • 7 Summary of Session 6
  • Introduction
  • 1 Poverty and class disadvantage
  • 2 Ghostbusters on the estate – a case study
  • 3 Class: intersections, contexts and convictions
  • 4 Drugs, knives, county lines and fast lanes
  • 5 Changing the questions?
  • 6 Class acts
  • 7 This session’s quiz
  • 8 Summary of Session 7
  • Introduction
  • 1 Why social and economic justice?
  • 2 Why comprehensive, universal and socially engaging?
  • 3 Diversion
  • 4 Child-appropriate justice
  • 5 Abolishing youth justice, championing children’s rights
    • 5.1 Children’s rights
  • 6 This session’s quiz
  • 7 Summary of Session 8
  • 8 Course conclusion
  • Tell us what you think
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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