4 October 2022

Young adults in court: shrinking numbers and increasing disparities

Courts and sentencing, Inequalities, Prosecution, Race and ethnicity, Sentencing

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This report explores the decline of the rate of court appearances among young adults (aged 18–24), which has dropped by 76% over recent years, from 32.2 court appearances per thousand young adults in 2007–08 to 7.8 per thousand in 2018–19. It also examines the disadvantage faced by young adults of minority ethnic origin in relation to the use of court procedures.


Publisher: The University of Sheffield
Authors: Nathan Hughes, Todd Hartman

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