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ROD EARLE

This is the first of three sessions in which you get a chance to explore how a young person's experience of crime, youth justice, policing, and punishment might vary according to their gender, their ethnicity, or their class background. In this session, you'll consider whether girls and young women get treated differently in youth justice systems that seem to be designed more for boys and young men.

You'll also get to consider your first case study. That's a fictional character designed to help you think about real events and real people. You'll ask questions and seek answers about whether stereotypes about girls and young women result in unfair outcomes for them in youth justice systems.