Life Outside: Collective Identity, Collective Exclusion, by the Howard League for Penal Reform, focuses on life after young people leave custody and are under the supervision of youth offending teams (YOTs) in the community.
Working with young people from across the country, as part of U R Boss, a five-year project supported by the Big Lottery Fund, the report explores the issue of young people’s self-identity.
It found that children in trouble with the law invariably describe a sense of exclusion from a society that they do not feel included in or recognised by.
It claims that life under supervision in the community fails to tackle the underlying causes of crime and all too often sets vulnerable children up to fail.
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