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Book Review: Youth Court Guide

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Vincent
AuthorChris Stanley
Published date01 December 2002
DOI10.1177/147322540200200309
Date01 December 2002
Subject MatterArticles
yj23 Youth Justice Vol. 2 No. 3
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a long enough period for the psychological, behavioural and social problems of such offenders
to be adequately addressed. In this respect the text highlights the need for more research and
understanding in this area.
Terry Moore and Tony Wilkinson, Youth Court Guide, Butterworths, 2001,
0-406-94022-3.
Reviewed by: Chris Stanley, Head of Youth Crime Section, Nacro.
It is nineteen years since this book was originally published as the Juvenile Court Guide back in
1984. At the time this very first edition was one of only a few accessible legal books on the
juvenile court. The second edition, Youth Court: a guide to the law and practice, was published in
1994, but as the authors’ point out in their introduction in the latest edition, the law (in relation
to children and young people going through the criminal justice system) is more complex than
ever. Indeed, such is the pace of change that the book covers the law as at 1 March 2001, this
review is being written in September 2002, and as I write there are already new pieces of
legislation on the statute book.
The book’s fifteen chapters cover all aspects of the youth justice system starting at the
pre-charge stage, moving on through the court process, remands, sentencing and there are
useful chapters covering ‘common problems in the youth court’, ‘the mentally ill juvenile’ and
‘appeals’. The appendix covers magistrate’s courts’ rules, the code of practice for crown
prosecutors, a comprehensive indexed table of statutes, plus a list of cases.
So this is a very useful, comprehensive guide to the youth court written by two experts in
the field; Terry Moore, a solicitor and clerk to the justices at Avon and Somerset Southwest
Divisions, and Tony Wilkinson, also a solicitor, who is Higher Court Advocate. There are now
a number of useful reference books on the law and the youth court, and this will go on my
shelf along with Defending young people in the criminal justice...

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