We've not given up: young women surviving the CJS, Executive Summary

27 July 2022

We’ve not given up: young women surviving the CJS, Executive Summary

Care system, Inequalities, Race and ethnicity, Trauma, Women offenders

Open report

This report is about girls and young women aged 17 to 25 years old in contact with the criminal justice system. In particular, it highlights the experiences of Black, Asian and minoritised young women, and young women with experience of the care system as both groups are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.

This is the final report of the Young Women’s Justice Project, run by Agenda and the Alliance for Youth Justice since January 2020.

Publisher: Agenda and Alliance for Youth Justice
Author: Maggie Bridge

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