TY - JOUR

T1 - Black and Minority Ethnic Boys and Custody in England and Wales

T2 - Understanding Subjective Experiences through an Analysis of Official Data

AU - Barn, Ravinder

AU - Feilzer, Martina

AU - Hardwick, Nicholas

PY - 2018/11/8

Y1 - 2018/11/8

N2 - Recent years have seen a dramatic shift in youth justice outcomes and a fall in the number of children drawn into the youth justice system in England and Wales. However, it appears that children from some backgrounds have not benefited as much as others from this change. There is a wealth of academic literature on processes of criminalisation, policies, and practices of youth justice and the experiences of children, particularly boys, in custody. However, there is little detailed understanding of how these processes, policies, and practices affect children from different backgrounds. This paper examines the most intrusive aspect of youth justice, namely, custodial sentences. Through an examination of the Inspectorate of Prisons’ reports and associated surveys, this paper seeks to explore black and minority ethnic boys’ perceptions of their experiences of custody.

AB - Recent years have seen a dramatic shift in youth justice outcomes and a fall in the number of children drawn into the youth justice system in England and Wales. However, it appears that children from some backgrounds have not benefited as much as others from this change. There is a wealth of academic literature on processes of criminalisation, policies, and practices of youth justice and the experiences of children, particularly boys, in custody. However, there is little detailed understanding of how these processes, policies, and practices affect children from different backgrounds. This paper examines the most intrusive aspect of youth justice, namely, custodial sentences. Through an examination of the Inspectorate of Prisons’ reports and associated surveys, this paper seeks to explore black and minority ethnic boys’ perceptions of their experiences of custody.

KW - Custody

KW - Ethnicity

KW - Boys

KW - Racism

KW - Youth Justice

U2 - 10.3390/socsci7110226

DO - 10.3390/socsci7110226

M3 - Article

VL - 7

SP - 226

EP - 242

JO - Social Sciences

JF - Social Sciences

SN - 2076-0760

IS - 11

ER -