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…

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…

T2A serious violence duty consultation response July 2022

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,…

Judging Maturity: Exploring the role of maturity in the sentencing of young adults 

How can we ensure maturity is considered by sentencers in assessments of culpability and that judicial decision-making is consistent? This research explores trends in the way courts deal with young…

Judging Maturity: Exploring the role of maturity in the sentencing of young adults

How can we ensure maturity is considered by sentencers in assessments of culpability and that judicial decision-making is consistent? This research explores trends in the way courts deal with young…

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…

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’…

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…

Young Adult and No Support: The entitlements of young adults to care in the community

What can agencies do to co-operate and invest resources most effectively to support young people? The focus of this handbook for professionals is on entitlements of care leaves and vulnerable…

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….

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…