A new briefing paper by Agenda, which supports women and girls, and the Alliance for Youth Justice, finds that young women’s experiences of violence, abuse and exploitation can drive them into the criminal justice system, but “their experiences are too often overlooked by the agencies they may turn to for support”.
It looks at the experiences of young women aged 17 to 25 who are involved in the criminal justice system and warns that many are being “punished for survival strategies and their response to trauma”.
“They have limited access to specialist support despite extreme levels of need and, rather than being met with care and support, they are met with punishment and stigma in a system which re-traumatises them, when it should be protecting them,” the report states.
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