‘Yesterday’s Naughty Children’ by Joan Rimmer
A History of the Liverpool Reformatory Association
Young offenders
‘Wayward Youth’ by August Aichhorn
Multiple messages about the care of young offenders from the days of Sigmund Freud
A Recipe for Disaster
Sending children to prison solves nothing.
‘Spare the Child’ by David Wills
The struggle to change a traditional approved school to offer relationship-based treatment
‘Road to Life’ by Anton Makarenko
An honest account of learning to run a community for young offenders by experience
Informing Parliament : The Children’s Workforce, and the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
The children’s workforce and youth justice discussed
News Views
A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including National Citizen’s Service, crime and the causes of crime, dealing with young offenders, labelling, computer software for teachers, compulsory cooking, the cycle of deprivation, computer-generated back pain, meningitis, and babies’ skin. National Citizens’ Service David Cameron has apparently been proposing that young people should do … Read more
The Fly on the Wall : 2
The first part of this story was in last month’s Webmag. If you want to read it first, click here. I soon found a crowd to hang around with. They showed me how to lift things. Food from market stalls, the odd purse or wallet. And of course we did begging. I looked so small … Read more