20 May 2026

Reimagining justice for children and young adults

Diversion, Inequalities, Young adults

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Annmarie Lewis OBE, Head of Criminal Justice at Barrow Cadbury Trust, delivers a speech to a workshop at Catch 22’s national conference on how we can reimagine justice for children and young adults.

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
Reimagining justice for children and young adults
April 2026
Joint Enterprise: A view over time

The report looks at two decades of data on joint enterprise, finding a disproportionate impact on young adults and persistent racial disparities.