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Young adults and antisocial behaviour enforcement

Building on work we completed last year, we are carrying out a series of activities to further explore how antisocial behaviour (ASB) measures are being used to sanction young adults (18 to 25 year olds), particularly in areas where use of the measures is high.

ASB measures can be used by local authorities, the police, and housing providers to sanction particular behaviours in public and private spaces. Very little is known about ASB measures; how they are used, who is being sanctioned by them, or what the outcomes are of using this approach. There is no...

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New project: Young adults and antisocial behaviour enforcement

Our latest project, funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, is now underway.

It will build on the findings from the project on young adults and antisocial behaviour measures we completed last year, which established the extent of the use of three antisocial behaviour (ASB) tools to sanction young adults in England and Wales.

We aim to further explore how...

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Anti-social behaviour powers are impossible to hold to account

Out with the old

In 2014, the system of anti-social behaviour powers in England and Wales was overhauled. Heralded as making anti-social behaviour more responsive to communities and...

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Anti-social behaviour powers and young adults: The data

This briefing provides the most comprehensive picture possible about the sanctions young adults have received as a result of three key antisocial behaviour powers, from the behaviours for which young adults are sanctioned, to where young adults are prosecuted and the court sentences they receive...

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Anti-social behaviour powers and young adults: Practitioners' accounts

It covers issues from the recognition of young adults in the workload to practitioners’ experiences of compliance with this age group. It also provides eight practitioners’ accounts of what happened as a result of their using ASB powers to sanction behaviour particularly pertinent to young adults...

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New research on young adults: Making Sense of Maturity

Roger Grimshaw, our Research Director, conducted research for the T2A Alliance into how probation practitioners have been using T2A’s Taking Account of Maturity guide...

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Social justice and young adults

The Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has advocated that children being looked after by the state should have the right to be...

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The prison estate and the pound sign

As a qualitative researcher I’m often quick to point out the limits of interpreting the world through numbers. However, having worked on...

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From criminal justice to social justice

This is an edited version of an article that appears in the June 2010 issue of Criminal Justice Matters. It summarises...

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The use of the Community Order and Suspended Sentence Order for Young Adult Offenders

Community sentences need to be more responsive to the needs of young adult offenders, according to a report published today by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. The report, which examines the use of the new Community Order and Suspended Sentence Order for adults aged between 18 and 24 found...

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Risky people or risky societies? Rethinking interventions for young adults in transition

Can the criminals of tomorrow be identified among the children of today? Is it possible to identify risk factors in children and their families that, left unaddressed, might result in a life of crime? Is it risky people who commit crime or risky societies that cause individual problems? In this...

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From criminal justice to social justice: rethinking approaches to young adults subject to criminal justice control

From criminal justice to social justice: rethinking approaches to young adults subject to criminal justice control is the last in a series of three that form part of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' contribution to the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, offers some proposals for what might...