Pathways From Crime: Ten steps to a more effective approach for young adults in the criminal justice process. Executive summary

…examines T2A evidence which informs its ten pathways from crime, shown to reduce offending, increase compliance with court orders and improve employment and housing chances for young adults. Publisher: T2A…

What’s The Risk? Employing young adults with criminal convictions

…organisation partners and providing guidance to employers to manage risks as well as channels though which they can share and publicise examples of good practice. Publisher: Business in the Community…

Sharing the Learning – The Drug and Alcohol Transitions Project for Young Adults in Derby City 2009-12

This report looks at trends in drug use and drinking by 16-24-year-olds in Derby City, and how a project was created to support them which included community outreach work, individual…

Young People with traumatic brain injury in custody

…levels of care? This report recognises that assessing and managing unmet health needs can inform support plans, help to address offending behaviour and provide opportunities to help young adults engage…

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…

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….

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…

Sentencing Young Adults – making the case for sentencing principles for young adults

Could a tailored legal framework achieve better outcomes in the sentencing of young adults? This report builds on previous Howard League work to show that sentencing can have an enormous…

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…

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,…

Your guide to the female estate

This advice and information guide is for girls and young women who are moving into the adult women’s estate for the first time. Publisher: Young Justice Advisors…

T2A response to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee inquiry into community sentences June 2023