Lost in Transition: A report of the Barrow Cadbury Commission on young adults and the criminal justice system

How can public services help young people – particularly those in trouble – make the transition to adulthood? This report from the Commission on Young Adults and the Criminal Justice…

Through the gate

This guide is for young adults leaving prison, on probation and that want some advice and information to navigate challenges in the community. Publisher: Young Justice Advisors…

T2A Final Process Evaluation Report

…of delivering young adult-specific interventions at the T2A Pathway points, providing robust evidence for policy-makers and commissioners. Publisher: Manchester Metropolitan University, Policy Evaluation and Research Unit Authors: Wong, Kinsella, Bamonte,…

Repairing Shattered Lives: Brain injury and its implications for criminal justice

What are the links between brain injury and offending? This report provides an overview of developments in understanding of traumatic brain injury in relation to crime, with a particular focus…

Transition to Adulthood Pathway Programme Evaluation – First Interim Report

This is the first Interim report for the evaluation. A further interim report, final formative evaluation report and final summative evaluation report was produced in. This report presents research findings……

Maturity, Young Adults and Criminal Justice: A literature review

How can a review of the scientific evidence support the proposal that young adults are a distinct group in the criminal justice system? This report examines the current research into…

Restorative Justice for Young Adults: Factoring in maturity and facilitating desistance

Can a restorative justice process encourage desistance and motivate young adult offenders? This report examines how to encourage personal responsibility and relationship-building and brings together evidence from existing sources as…

T2A response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: call for evidence April 2021

A New Start: Young adults in the criminal justice system – Executive summary

…custodial sentences with community sentences, and for young adults in custody to be separate from adult prisoners and for court-decision making to consider maturity when holding young adults to account….

A fairer way: procedural fairness for young adults at court

…test new approaches to cases of young adult defendants in criminal courts in England and Wales. It identifies significant areas of the system that have failed to recognise young adults’…

Your Guide to the Male Estate

This guide provides boys and young men moving into the adult male prison estate for the first time with advice, information and support. Publisher: Young Justice Advisors…

Young People with traumatic brain injury in custody

Is it possible to improve the identification of young adults with a brain injuries or neurological disabilities who enter custody, and raise awareness of the affect of their condition and…