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Booze Asbos won't change behaviour

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 8, 2009
  • | CYP Now
So many policy issues and concerns have crystallised around the new Drinking Banning Orders, which came into force on the last day of August, that it is difficult to know where to start. And the ensuing disquiet from many quarters is not just pertinent to these "booze Asbos" or "alcobos" (alcohol banning orders) as I prefer to call them.

A new approach to tackling knife crime

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 30, 2008
  • | CYP Now
"It's what you do. It's what your friends do, isn't it?" Jay is 16, has been involved in gang culture and is one of the many young people who feel it is necessary to carry a weapon for protection.

Sport can tackle the problem of youth justice disproportionality

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
  • | CYP Now
In the 12 months before March 2020, children from black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) backgrounds made up more than half the population in youth custody. In 2018/19, white children committed 61 per cent of all serious offences, but only accounted for 51 per cent of children in custody according to the Youth Justice Board’s Exploring Racial Disparity report.

The amoral panic surrounding juvenile crime

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 29, 2008
  • | CYP Now
The conviction of three young people in mid-January for the awful murder of Garry Newlove was followed by a moving and poignant plea from his widow Helen for society to reclaim the streets from violent and yobbish youth.

Young offenders are also victims

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 8, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The much publicised trial of the two young boys from Edlington who tortured two other boys of similar age has, inevitably, brought back vivid memories of the James Bulger murder 17 years ago.

Curbing the trend towards 'combat' dogs

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 1, 2010
  • | CYP Now
We have good reason to get more anxious about the proliferation of dogs owned, irresponsibly, by young people. Not all young people, of course, but a group of young men for whom ownership of a fighting dog has steadily replaced the possession of a knife. The latter carries a custodial sentence of five years; the former can only result in confiscation.

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