Initial findings from the Doing Youth Justice study, produced by the University of Baths Department of Social and Policy Studies, suggest practitioners feel they have little choice but to use punitive measures.
Jo Phoenix, the researcher who produced the report, said: Information on the desperate welfare needs of young offenders is available to all those who make decisions about young offenders police, youth offending teams and magistrates but in practice they have only punitive measures at their disposal.
Phoenix conducted the two-year study by analysing case files, observing in court, and through more than 100 interviews with youth justice practitioners and young people involved in the youth justice system.
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