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The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion?

Author(s) -

Miranda Bevan

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

the british journal of criminology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404

H-Index - 94

eISSN - 1464-3529

pISSN - 0007-0955

DOI - 10.1093/bjc/azab107

Subject(s) - punishment (psychology) , suspect , criminology , injustice , psychology , perspective (graphical) , criminal justice , child custody , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science

This article utilizes the sociology of punishment, particularly the work of Gresham Sykes in 1958, to develop an understanding of the particular pains of police custody for children, drawing on the first comprehensive study in England and Wales to review the police custody process as a whole from the perspective of the child suspect. By identifying the correspondences and contrasts between the experience of adult sentenced prisoners and child suspects in detention, the analysis illuminates the damaging ramifications of harsh custody processes for children, both in terms of their effective participation in the justice process and their ongoing attitudes towards the police.

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