By The TCR Staff, The Crime Report, June 2, 2020
Young people who are treated with respect and given a “voice” in their encounters with juvenile court are likely to avoid further entanglement in the justice system, according to a study published in the United Kingdom.
“Giving young people voice and the opportunity to engage in proceedings can help them identify as active agents in the [justice] process,” said the study by the Centre for Justice Innovation.
The Centre, housed at the Institute for Criminal & Justice Policy Research at the University of London’s Birkbeck School of Law, explored how “procedural fairness”—or the lack of it—impacted youth appearing before Youth Court.
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