Youth Custody
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- Created on: 28-03-17 16:50
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- Youth Custody
- Stats
- 68% of children released from custody re-offend within a year
- 11% of children in prison have attempted suicide
- £224 million spent on the provision of secure accommodation for children 2012/13
- The biggest factor of re-offending is if you have a low socio-economic status
- You are 40% more likely to commit crime
- Youth Justice Board spends most of its money on custody - it's going up!
- 2005 - 06 over £250 million spent!!
- 68% of children released from custody re-offend within a year
- Re-offending remains stubbornly high
- Re-offending rates are higher in young adults than those that are older
- Destructive cycle of crime that young people fall into and cannot get out
- Many of these people have complicated and chaotic lives
- trauma, abuse, bereavement
- grown up in local authority care
- excluded from school
- drug or alcohol related dependencies
- mental health problems or personality disorders
- Nurture vs Nature Debate
- Nature - some sociologists believe that criminality is in a persons nature - you are inherently good/bad
- Nurture - the better the environment that you have been brought up in the less likely you are to commit crime
- Rough childhood - contact with drugs/alcohol etc you are more likely to commit crime
- Custody
- crime so serious no other option - muder
- person has committed crimes before
- judge or magistrate thinks the person is a risk to the public
- can be sent to custody if you are on remand
- Better Sentences??
- Fines
- Curfew
- Referral Order: attend a YOT meeting to agree certain rules that the person should abide by to avoid further crime
- Reparation Order
- Rehabilitation Order
- Ancillary Orders
- ASBO
- Parental Bind Over: Parents must control child otherwise further consequences
- Prosecution Costs
- Compensation
- Stats
- Custodial - Secure Centres
- Young Offenders Institutions
- Run by Prison Service and private companies
- age 15 - 21
- 60 - 400 people
- Secure Training Centres
- Run by private companies
- age up to 17
- 50 - 80 people
- 30 hours of training and education
- Secure Children's Homes
- Run by local councils
- age 10 - 14
- 8 - 40 people
- 30 hours of training and education
- Custody
- crime so serious no other option - muder
- person has committed crimes before
- judge or magistrate thinks the person is a risk to the public
- can be sent to custody if you are on remand
- Young Offenders Institutions
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