Representation of children and young people

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?