This article is based on the authors’ involvement in two reviews of Jersey’s youth justice system, carried out in 2010 and 2018. The reviews provide fresh insights into the process of moving towards a child-first, rights-informed youth justice system; the potential of...
Youth Justice in Jersey: Options for change
The Report is grounded in the wider research on youth justice and a review of the services offered to young people who break the law in Jersey. Accordingly, two questions are posed. Firstly, what does research tell us about the essential principles that should...
Jersey Revisited: reflections on the influence of a policy review on youth justice in an island microstate
In 2010 the authors were members of a team which was invited to carry out a review of youth justice policy and practice in the Channel Island of Jersey. This article describes the process of the review, its major recommendations, and what happened as a result....