‘85.7%’
Through any system
of analysis these
numbers indicate
that an overwhelming
majority of young
people provided for
in custody are self
harming, (if polling day
could benefit from such
numbers, low turn outs
would be a thing of the
past). Therefor it might
strike the atypical but
reasonable person that
in terms of punishment,
rehabilitation and safeguarding of the public, the lines
are at times shall we say blurred. With regard to the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child, the high percentages
of juvenile arrests are without doubt compounded by
constitutional irregularities such as - unlike other Eu
members the Uk is the only state that sets no time limit on
the maximum term of imprisonment available for juveniles’
a vulnerable child who is the victim of crime but is also a
criminal is truly dire - disproportionate to the methodology
of justice? My example would be the cases of victims of
abuse who have had compensation awarded by the CI