Reflections on Juvenile Justice and Youth Crime - Special Panel Celebrating 25 Years of ESC

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

As the ESC celebrates its silver anniversary, what have been the major insights from 25 years of research across Europe on youth crime and juvenile justice? The papers in this panel will explore a range of critical issues and their implications for theory, method and policy. These issues include: restorative justice, detention, child rights, offending pathways, and penal politics. In a context fraught with crisis, what do the lessons from the past tell us about the futures of justice for children and young people who come into conflict with the law? And how can the findings from our research help drive the transformations necessary to enable all children and young people to thrive?

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Juvenile Justice and Children’s Rights (Juvenile Justice WG)

Chair

• Lesley McAra, Edinburgh University

Individual Presentations

• Youth justice reforms in Europe in the last 25 years: Diversion, restorative justice and the rejuvenation of juvenile justice - Frieder Dunkel, Professor, Greifswald University

• Surveying the ‘New Youth Justice’ in England and Wales, 2000-25: Politics, penal outcomes and analytical learning - Barry Goldson, The University of Liverpool

• Reflections on youth transitions and crime: 25 years of the Edinburgh Study - Susan McVie, University of Edinburgh

• A quiet revolution? How Scotland delivered less crime without more punishment and why this matters - Lesley McAra, Edinburgh University