Why should we consider black and minority ethnic (BAME) young people involved in the criminal justice system?
BAME young people face more ingrained pathways into the criminal justice system as a result of greater levels of disengagement and exclusion from school, over-representation in the care system and mistrust of mental health services. As a result, they are over-represented in all stages of the youth justice system, with differential treatment fast-tracking them through criminal justice pathways.
With 43 per cent of imprisoned under 18-year-olds being from BAME backgrounds, there is now greater disproportion in the number of non-white people in prisons compared with the general population in the UK than in the United States.
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