Sentencing Principles for Young Adults

9 January 2019

Sentencing Principles for Young Adults

Courts and sentencing, Sentencing, Young adults

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This document sets out the principles that ought to be applied to young adults, typically aged 18 to 25, sentenced for any offence, in line with developments in case law, science and social studies.

Publisher: The Howard League for Penal Reform

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