Having formerly served as minister for children and young people, John Denham is familiar with the issues that young people face today.
But even he was surprised at some of the outcomes of a report by the Home Affairs Select Committee, which he chairs, into the over-representation of black young people and the criminal justice system.
After a year of evidence-gathering and research, the committee discovered that social exclusion was the key factor in why young black people are over-represented.
"The committee set out to look at what lay behind the clear statistics that show an over-representation of black people at any stage of the criminal justice system," says Denham. "We wanted to try to understand and see what might be done about it.
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