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Sentencing principles for young adults
The report sets out how principled guidelines would help judges and magistrates to understand young adults better, and provide a legal framework to achieve better sentencing decisions.
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‘This is our story’: Children and young people on criminalisation in residential care
This is the fourth in a series of briefings to be published alongside a programme of research and campaign work to end the criminalisation of children living in residential care.
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Sentencing Young Adults
This report makes the case for sentencing principles for young adults.
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‘Hearts and heads’ – Good practice in children’s homes
This is the third in a series of briefings to be published alongside a programme of research and campaign work to end the criminalisation of children living in residential care.
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More than a roof overhead
What home means to children in trouble with the law
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Children and Sentencing:
A guide for adults supporting children facing sentence in the criminal courts in England and Wales
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Ending the criminalisation of children in residential care. Briefing two: best practice in policing
Howard League report explores policing of children’s homes
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Justice for Young People
Justice for Young People: 15 years of successful legal work explains how the Howard League set up a legal team to provide prison and civil law support to children in custody.
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Judging maturity
Research report exploring the role of maturity in the sentencing of young adults
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Ending the criminalisation of children in residential care
This is the first in a series of briefings to be published alongside a programme of research and campaign work to end the criminalisation of children living in residential care.
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