10% over or under the word count (3000) – papers aims: Critically discuss the representation of children and young people, from black, Asian, minority, ethnic and poor working-class backgrounds, in the youth justice system.
• Contextualise the representation of these groups through use of statistics and literature.
•Discuss the over-representation of minority and ethnic young people in the YJS
•Discuss the over-representation of poor working-class young people in the YJS
•Explain the reasons for this over-representation
Aims:
•Present the statistics about minority young people in the youth justice system.
•Suggest different ways in which these statistics might be interpreted.
•Establish whether patterns of offending among black and minority young people differ from those among white young people.
•Establish possible causes of black and minority young people’s presence in the youth justice system, overrepresentation, and involvement in offending.
•Examine whether the reasons for victimisation, offending and youth justice responses are different or the same as the white majority of young people?