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    Child imprisonment: exploring injustice by geography

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    Authors
    Bateman, Tim
    Affiliation
    University of Bedfordshire
    Issue Date
    2011
    Subjects
    sentences
    young offender institutions
    young offenders
    youth courts
    youth justice
    youth offending teams
    
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    Abstract
    The risk that a child might be confined to the secure estate depends to a large extent on the post code of the court in which he or she is sentenced. At the level of individual youth offending team (YOT) area, the difference is 1 in 5 cases leading to a court disposal in Merthyr Tydfil to 1 in 150 in Dorset. This variation cannot be explained by local patterns of youth crime, but is indicative of a form of injustice. The article demonstrates that sentence decision-making at the local level is sensitive to a range of factors which distinguish the areas with a high use of detention from those which deprive few children of their liberty. These factors are: the extent of pre-court diversion; the distribution of sentencing options below the level of custody; and the manner in which youth justice practitioners respond to children who come to the attentions of YOTs. The article concludes that areas where the level of child imprisonment remains relatively low retain elements from an earlier era of youth justice committed to decriminalisation, diversion and decarceration. In contrast, localities with higher rates of incarceration show more features associated with the punitive turn of the early 1990s.
    Citation
    Bateman, T. (2011) 'Child imprisonment: exploring injustice by geography' in Prison Service journal 197, pp10-16
    Publisher
    HM Prison Service
    Journal
    Prison Service journal
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302122
    Additional Links
    http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/sites/crimeandjustice.org.uk/files/PSJ%20September%202011%20No.%20197.pdf
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0300-3558
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