Better in Europe? European responses to young adult offending

10 March 2015

Better in Europe? European responses to young adult offending

Young adults

Open report

This briefing explains how most European justice systems accept that age should be reflected in criminal justice decision-making, and that employing a more tolerant approach to juvenile offenders is justified by the recognition that they are still maturing and developing.

Publisher: Universitat Greifswald/T2A
Author: Rob Allen

prison, young adults

Raise the Bars: Co-producing practice guidance with Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller people

This Friends, Families and Travellers report summarises focus groups with 57 Romany, Gypsy and Irish Traveller young adults across 20 prisons, with recommendations for reform based on their experiences.

Criminal Justice, young adults

Behind the decline

This Centre for Crime and Justice Studies report looks at the shrinking young adult population within the criminal justice system who are experiencing increasingly harsher treatment.

May 2026