Differential treatment in the youth justice system - Equality and ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT IN THE YOUTH JUSTICE SYSTEMneeds assessment tool used by YOTs. The chapter presents a description of thesample, an outline of the disposals given to young people, and statistical tests forthe presence of potential discrimination.5.1 Sample descriptionThis section summarises the sample. Detailed tables are provided in Appendix C.It should be remembered that our 12 YOTs were selected on the basis that theirpopulations had high proportions of teenagers from ethnic minorities. Thus thestatistics in this chapter should not be taken to be nationally representative.EthnicityOur dataset included two ethnicity variables: one was a six-category variable used byYOTs to report back to the Youth Justice Board (YJB), which classified offenders as:Asian, black, mixed, Chinese/other, unknown and white. The other was the 16+1classification of the census. 33 The former classified 6% of the sample as mixed, andthe latter 5%. We have used the former in our analysis, on the assumption that YOTswould have used the more reliable variable in their YJB returns. The fact that adiscrepancy in the recording of the mixed race group has occurred was not a surprisegiven that Feilzer and Hood (2004:43) noted that only a small proportion of mixedrace youths were correctly identified. Recording of ethnicity has improved over thefive-year period since Feilzer and Hood’s study: 4% of cases in our dataset wererecorded as unknown ethnicity, compared with 7% of those analysed by Feilzer andHood (2004:42). Two of our YOTs between them accounted for six out of 10 caseswith missing ethnicity data, suggesting poor records may be limited to specific YOTs.33However, this became 19+1 categories as data for some young people recorded as black, mixed andwhite could not be assigned to a sub-group.67
PASSING THROUGH THE YOUTH JUSTICE SYSTEMFigure 5.1Ethnicity and gender of young people in the sampleAsian11%Black20%White59%Chinese/Other
Page 1 and 2:
Equality and Human Rights Commissio
Page 3 and 4:
© Equality and Human Rights Commis
Page 5 and 6:
Appendix A: Area profiles 97Appendi
Page 7 and 8:
Tables and figuresPageTables3.1 Pop
Page 9 and 10:
GlossaryBCUBasic Command UnitCJSCri
Page 11:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYAssessing the reas
Page 15 and 16:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYPolice training•
Page 17 and 18:
INTRODUCTIONover-represented in rob
Page 19 and 20:
INTRODUCTIONthe increase in prosecu
Page 21 and 22:
INTRODUCTIONIn contrast, a MORI sel
Page 23 and 24:
INTRODUCTIONexplanation is that you
Page 25 and 26:
INTRODUCTIONin itself, if the socia
Page 27 and 28:
RESEARCH METHODS2. Research methods
Page 29 and 30:
RESEARCH METHODS29% was white; 6% b
Page 31 and 32: RESEARCH METHODSfor several differe
Page 33 and 34: YOUNG PEOPLE’S ENTRY INTO THE YOU
Page 51 and 52: UNDERSTANDING THE POLICING OF YOUNG
Page 81: PASSING THROUGH THE YOUTH JUSTICE S
Page 85 and 86: PASSING THROUGH THE YOUTH JUSTICE S
Page 105 and 106: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS6. Discus
Page 107 and 108: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONSdefendant
Page 109 and 110: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONSdifficult
Page 111 and 112: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONSFurther r
Page 113 and 114: APPENDICES10- to 17-year-old popula
Page 115 and 116: APPENDICES16s making up 23% of the
Page 117 and 118: APPENDICESAppendix B:Tables of offe
Page 119 and 120: APPENDICESCustody record dataTable
Page 121 and 122: APPENDICESTable B7Area C custody re
Page 123 and 124: APPENDICESAppendix C:YOT data sampl
Page 125 and 126: APPENDICESTable C3ONS estimated 10-
Page 127 and 128: APPENDICESTable C5Profile of crimes
Page 129 and 130: APPENDICESTable C6 Profile of crime
Page 131 and 132: APPENDICESTable C7aCase profile% Ma
Page 133 and 134:
APPENDICESTable C8Proportion of off
Page 135 and 136:
Table C10Proportion of disposals gi
Page 137 and 138:
Table C12Proportion of sentenced di
Page 139 and 140:
Appendix D:Multivariate logistic re
Page 141 and 142:
APPENDICESTable D3Model of prosecut
Page 143 and 144:
APPENDICESTable D6Model of dismissa
Page 145 and 146:
APPENDICESTable D8: Model of Remand
Page 147 and 148:
APPENDICESTable D10Asset sample, mo
Page 149 and 150:
APPENDICESTable D11Asset sample, mo
Page 151 and 152:
Table D13Model of community sentenc
Page 153 and 154:
APPENDICESTable D15 Model of custod
Page 155 and 156:
APPENDICESTable D17Length of custod
Page 157 and 158:
REFERENCESReferencesAudit Commissio
Page 159 and 160:
REFERENCESMirrlees-Black, C., Budd,
Page 161 and 162:
ContactsEnglandEquality and Human R
show all

Differential treatment in the youth justice system - Equality and ...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?