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Will sanctions or support ward off trouble?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008
  • | CYP Now
One element of the "triple track" response in the new Youth Taskforce Action Plan is the idea of non-negotiable support. Some will immediately baulk at the concept: surely support has to be wanted to be effective?

The beautiful game has started to turn ugly

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 15, 2008
  • | CYP Now
In one of the first discussions on youthful antisocial behaviour during the 1990s, I noted in a speech that most of the lads' magazines tended to be preoccupied with half-naked women and bad-boy footballers.

Strange alliance opposes justice reforms

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
  • | CYP Now
Ever since the overarching Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO) was mooted as the replacement for the complex array of community sentences currently available for young offenders, I have sounded a note of caution. When the Scaled Approach was announced, I immediately started suggesting, in academic lectures on youth justice, that there was an historical precedent that highlighted the need for care in its development.

Break the cycle of neglect and reoffending

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 13, 2007
  • | CYP Now
Media portrayals of "hoodies" and concerns that antisocial behaviour orders are seen as badges of honour have strengthened the perception that young people and crime are inextricably linked.

Poetry unlocks the minds of prisoners

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
  • | CYP Now
Twice in the space of a week I was in Parc Prison in south Wales. The visits were at either end of a week of poetry, lectures and debate, developed and organised through an impressive and creative tie-up between the real Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye and the prison in Bridgend.

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