Ten years of Labour's youth justice reforms: an independent audit

youthjusticeaudit cover Enver Solomon and Richard Garside (May 2008)

This report makes an independent assessment of the government's youth justice reforms. Ten years on from the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act and the creation of youth offending teams and the Youth Justice Board, it considers the impact of the radical restructuring. Success, it argues, has been far more mixed and ambiguous than the government often claims.

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