Jailing children does not make us safer – we need to get rid of this Dickensian delusion | Kirsty Brimelow

We have a Victorian attitude to child offenders. It is harmful to them – and, when they reoffend, damaging to everyone Kirsty Brimelow KC is chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales It is said that there can be no truer revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats…

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