CYCJ Reports

CYCJ has recently published the results of its most recent stakeholder survey, which focused on how parents and carers experience their child’s contact with the justice system. Parents and carers are sometimes an overlooked element of the wider youth justice ‘response’, yet they are often the first response to any problematic behaviour and an important source of support for their child as well as crucial in the implementation of any care plan.  Parents and carers depicted their experience with the justice system as mostly frightening, overwhelming and disempowering, as this image shows.  Read the full report HERE.

The latest Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice Key Messages paper has now been published, summarising findings and themes from CYCJ’s work over the past three years. This paper builds on their first key messages document, published in 2016.  CYCJ concludes that whilst policy and practice has progressed in the intervening years, the evidence gathered and the voices they have listened to still leaves some important questions that go right to the heart of what youth justice means today. In essence, CYCJ poses the question:  “Are children’s rights protected and upheld by Scotland’s youth justice systems?”  Read CYCJ’s thoughts HERE