Jim Rose captures this challenge in the subtitle of his book. As Lord Woolf once said, you do not send people to prison to improve them but, if they are in prison, there are things that can be done to improve them.
At the heart of this vision is the need to transform the culture of secure accommodation. Rose traces the history of our use of secure accommodation for young people and sets out the thinking that informs current aspirations.
These stress the importance of moving beyond physical containment towards addressing effectively the emotional and behavioural factors that preceded and precipitated the road to custody. Moreover, there have to be effective connections to the world beyond, so that change may have a reasonable chance of being sustained by young people on release.
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