The new Ethnic Disproportionality in Remand and Sentencing in the Youth Justice System paper, published last week, provides analysis of two years' worth of assessment and case management data “to better understand the extent of ethnic disproportionality in remand and sentencing outcomes”, the YJB said.
The report, which builds on the Lammy Review, published in 2017, finds that “there are notable differences between children of different ethnicities in risk, wellbeing and offending profiles with black children and children of mixed ethnicity having the largest differences compared to white children”.
“Black children were most likely to receive a custodial sentence and to serve longer sentences than all other ethnic groups,” the report states, adding that they are also less likely than children of all other ethnicities to receive out of court disposals.
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