Publications & Reports

• Why is the Criminal Justice System Failing Young Adults?

  The Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance has produced a new 4-page summary of its work, entitled 'Why is the Criminal Justice System Failing Young Adults?' This document has been sent to all MPs, the relevant select committees, and other policy makers. It will also be used in hard copy at the forthcoming party conferences. To download this paper, please go to www.t2a.org.uk/pubilcations

  Read More

• Why is the Criminal Justice System Failing Young Adults?

  New T2A publication for Parliamentarians The Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance has produced a new 4-page summary of its work, entitled 'Why is the Criminal Justice System Failing Young Adults?' This document has been sent to all MPs, the relevant select committees, and other policy makers. It will also be used in hard copy at the forthcoming party conferences. To download this paper, please go to www.t2a.org.uk/pubilcations

  Read More

• Aiming Higher

  A good practice guide for practitioners working with young adults with multiple needs, produced by Revolving Doors Agency as part of their work for the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance. It was compiled using the views of young adults and professionals.

  Read More

• From criminal justice to social justice: rethinking approaches to young adults subject to criminal justice control

  This briefing offers some proposals for what might be involved in a wholesale shift in governmental approaches to young adults subject to criminal justice control. It makes the case for interventions with young adults that place social justice, not criminal justice, at their heart. This is the third of three briefings the Centre is publishing as part of its contribution to the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust

  Read More

• Risky people or risky societies? Rethinking interventions for young adults in transition

  This is the first of three briefings the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has published as part of its contribution to the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. In this briefing Richard Garside, the Centre's director, critiques policies informed by risk factor analysis that seek to prevent crime by intervening early in the lives of troubled children. He also proposes a different way to think about risk as a social force rather than an individual pathology.

  Read More

• Comparing coercive and non-coercive interventions

  The incidence of imprisonment for under-18s in England and Wales is one of the highest in the world. This is the second of three briefings the Centre is publishing as part of its contribution to the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. The report shows resorting to incarceration and strict control has little or no benefit in reducing reconviction. The report recommends more rational and effective approaches to working with young people which are more humane and cost-effective than a reliance on the ever-increasing investment in institutions and mechanisms of control.

  Read More

• Policy, purpose and pragmatism: dilemmas for voluntary and community organisations working with black young people affected by crime

  Voluntary and community organisations working with black young people affected by crime face making `tragic bargains in their constant struggle for sustainability,' according to new research funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. The research, based on detailed interviews in four cities in England, includes extensive first-hand accounts from representatives of voluntary and community organisations.

  Read More

• Matrix Economic analysis of interventions for young adult offenders

  A report summarizing the economic analysis of alternative interventions for young adult offenders by Matrix Evidence.

  Read More

• Young Adult Manifesto

  A report containing 10 recommendations aimed to make the way in which we deal with young adult offenders more effective, fairer and less costly. The ‘Young Adult Manifesto’ is the culmination of 18 months research and 12 weeks of consultation with politicians, policy makers, practitioners, voluntary groups, young people and ex-offenders.

  Read More

• A New Start: Young Adults in the Criminal Justice System

  A 'green paper' report published by the T2A Alliance calling for a distinct and radically different approach to young adults in the criminal justice system; an approach that is proportionate to their maturity and responsive to their specific needs. Please visit the 'Consultation' section of the website to comment on the report's recommendations.

  Read More

• A New Start: Executive Summary

  The Executive Summary of the T2A Alliance’s report ‘A New Start: Young Adults in the Criminal Justice System.’

  Read More

• Universities of Crime: Young Adults, the Criminal Justice System and Social Policy

  A report by the Transition to Adulthood Alliance highlighting the gaps in policy and service provision for young adults in the criminal justice system. Young adults make up more than a third of those sentenced to prison and have some of the highest re-offending rates of any group, yet the current policy approach to them is confused and ineffective.

  Read More

• Coping with Kidulthood: The Hidden Truth Behind Britain’s Abandoned Adolescents

  A report on the the state of marginalised young adults in Britain. This report is based on focus group research which looked at two groups of young men, university students and former offenders and analysed their life experiences and their perceptions of growing up in modern Britain.

  Read More

• Lost in Transition: Three Years On

  A report by Rob Allen, International Centre for Prison Studies looking at developments in policy and practice with young adult offenders since the Trust's original Commission report, 'Lost in Transition', was published in 2005. The report also looks at the challenges that lie in the way of better policies on young adult offenders in the future.

  Read More

• Lost in Transition – A Report of the Barrow Cadbury Commission on Young Adults and the Criminal Justice System

  This first major report by the Barrow Cadbury Trust on young adults in, or at risk of being, in the criminal justice system, was published in 2005. The report of the Barrow Cadbury Commission on Young Adults and the Criminal Justice System includes 9 policy recommendations for the young adult age group, including the establishment of T2A (Transition to Adulthood) Teams.

  Read More