Raymond Arthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 4114977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond Arthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthur |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHUR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4454-2779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reforming the law on the physical punishment of children in England and Northern Ireland
Re-Designing Secure Children’s Homes Through a Child-First Lens
This article explores existing learning gaps concerning optimal ways to support children within and beyond secure care in England and Wales, with a specific focus on Secure Children’s Homes (SCHs). Insights from key stakeholders working in SCHs are often omitted from research despite being fundamental to understanding both challenges and best-practice initiatives. The Children’s Residential Care Research Network, which is a collaboration between …
The role of lawyers in supporting young people in the criminal justice system
Legal aid reductions have caused a crisis in the criminal justice system impacting the quality of representation and advice provided by lawyers. This paper is particularly concerned with the impact of these cuts on young people in the youth criminal justice system. The paper will examine how changes to the way in which defence lawyers are funded is having a damaging impact upon the experience of young people involved in the criminal justice syste…
The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 – Secure Colleges and the Legitimation of State Sponsored Violence
The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 empowers staff in secure colleges to subject young people in custody to dangerous force for the purpose of ensuring ‘good order and discipline’. The use of force to restrain young people in custody can cause serious physical injury, profound psychological damage and has contributed to the custodial deaths of two young people in 2004. Despite these dangers, in most youth custodial establishments the use of …
Recognising children's citizenship in the youth justice system
Citizenship literature has tended to portray children as ‘citizens in the making’ or as citizens invested with full agency. English law treats young people in an ambiguous fashion, sometimes as pre-citizens and consequently in need of protection and sometimes as full citizens, principally so in the context of the youth justice system. This article will examine how neither the view of a child as a ‘citizen in waiting’ or as a citizen with full age…
Troubling Times for Young People and Families With Troubles – Responding to Truancy, Rioting and Families Struggling With Adversity
The Big Society was one of the UK Prime Minister’s flagship policy ideas prior to his election in 2010 and has since become part of the UK coalition government’s legislative programme. A key aspect of the Big Society is to mend ‘societally Broken Britain’ by supporting families, as ‘strong families are the foundation of a bigger, stronger society’. However, in the aftermath of the riots of August 2011 in London and other parts of England, the UK …
Punishing children for their behaviour
This article examines the laws which regulate how children are punished from two perspectives – it examines parents' rights to physically punish their children for their misbehaviour and the right of the state to criminally punish young people from the age of 10 years for engaging in offending behaviour. The article considers the laws in these areas and assesses whether these laws are consistent with the social science research on this topic
Rethinking the Criminal Responsibility of Young People in England and Wales
In 2010 two boys, aged 10 years, were convicted of the attempted rape of an eight year old girl in England.This article will consider the question of when is it fair to hold young people criminally responsible and to subject them to the full rigours of a criminal trial.It examines the assumption that children today are maturing at an earlier age and argues that the law needs to recognise that children may not yet be developed enough to understand…
Let no one despise your youth”
Purpose The youth justice system in England and Wales has been subjected to numerous transformations since 1997 under New Labour governments. Most approaches to the field during the period under review address the fine details of what is a politically and organisationally modernised domain. Even though this paper steps inside the system to observe some of its transformative developments, it aims to begin at the other end which enables a more roun…
Young Offenders and the Law
How does the law deal with young offenders, and to what extent does the law protect and promote the rights of young people in conflict with the law? These are the central issues addressed by Young Offenders and the Law in its examination of the legal response to the phenomenon of youth offending, and the contemporary forces that shape the law. \n \nThis book develops the reader’s understanding of the sociological, criminological, historical, poli…
Protecting the Best Interests of the Child
In the Republic of Ireland the government has proposed amending the Irish Constitution in order to improve children's rights. In this article I will argue that the proposed amendment represents a serious diminution in the rights historically afforded to young people who offend, disregards Ireland's commitments under international law and also ignores the well established link between child maltreatment and youth offending. The Irish approach echo…
Jane B. Sprott and Anthony N. Doob, Justice for Girls? Stability and Change in the Youth Justice Systems
Sprott and Doob aim to use female juvenile offending as "a lens through which one can better observe, and thus, understand" the youth justice systems of the United States and Canada.The purpose of this comparative approach is to help in unravelling the puzzle of girls, juvenile crime and the criminal justice system.Virtually all literature on juvenile offending focuses on male participation in juvenile offending behaviour.This inattention to fema…
Family Life and Youth Offending
The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal justice system, but this book examines how this evidence can be used to prevent offending in the first place. Examining the relationship between the c…
Punishing Parents for the Crimes of their Children
In recent years there has been a profusion of laws that punish parents for their children's offences. These parental responsibility laws are based on the assumption that parents of children who offend have not accepted their responsibility and that they can be made to do so by the imposition of court orders and financial penalties. In this article I will examine the efficacy of punishing parents for the crimes of their children. I will consider w…
Young Offenders
The Institute of Public Policy Research recommended that the government in England and Wales should establish a unified youth justice system, based on the Scottish Reporter system, for assessing the nature of intervention needed by young offenders. This article examines the Scottish youth justice system, the French youth justice system, and the youth justice system in England and Wales. The article contends that in England and Wales there already…
Troubling Times for Young People and Families With Troubles – Responding to Truancy, Rioting and Families Struggling With Adversity
The Big Society was one of the UK Prime Minister’s flagship policy ideas prior to his election in 2010 and has since become part of the UK coalition government’s legislative programme. A key aspect of the Big Society is to mend ‘societally Broken Britain’ by supporting families, as ‘strong families are the foundation of a bigger, stronger society’. However, in the aftermath of the riots of August 2011 in London and other parts of England, the UK …
Young Offenders
The Institute of Public Policy Research recommended that the government in England and Wales should establish a unified youth justice system, based on the Scottish Reporter system, for assessing the nature of intervention needed by young offenders. This article examines the Scottish youth justice system, the French youth justice system, and the youth justice system in England and Wales. The article contends that in England and Wales there already…
The role of lawyers in supporting young people in the criminal justice system
Legal aid reductions have caused a crisis in the criminal justice system impacting the quality of representation and advice provided by lawyers. This paper is particularly concerned with the impact of these cuts on young people in the youth criminal justice system. The paper will examine how changes to the way in which defence lawyers are funded is having a damaging impact upon the experience of young people involved in the criminal justice syste…
Recognising children's citizenship in the youth justice system
Citizenship literature has tended to portray children as ‘citizens in the making’ or as citizens invested with full agency. English law treats young people in an ambiguous fashion, sometimes as pre-citizens and consequently in need of protection and sometimes as full citizens, principally so in the context of the youth justice system. This article will examine how neither the view of a child as a ‘citizen in waiting’ or as a citizen with full age…
Rethinking the Criminal Responsibility of Young People in England and Wales
In 2010 two boys, aged 10 years, were convicted of the attempted rape of an eight year old girl in England.This article will consider the question of when is it fair to hold young people criminally responsible and to subject them to the full rigours of a criminal trial.It examines the assumption that children today are maturing at an earlier age and argues that the law needs to recognise that children may not yet be developed enough to understand…
Let no one despise your youth”
Purpose The youth justice system in England and Wales has been subjected to numerous transformations since 1997 under New Labour governments. Most approaches to the field during the period under review address the fine details of what is a politically and organisationally modernised domain. Even though this paper steps inside the system to observe some of its transformative developments, it aims to begin at the other end which enables a more roun…
Young Offenders
The Institute of Public Policy Research recommended that the government in England and Wales should establish a unified youth justice system, based on the Scottish Reporter system, for assessing the nature of intervention needed by young offenders. This article examines the Scottish youth justice system, the French youth justice system, and the youth justice system in England and Wales. The article contends that in England and Wales there already…
Punishing Parents for the Crimes of their Children
In recent years there has been a profusion of laws that punish parents for their children's offences. These parental responsibility laws are based on the assumption that parents of children who offend have not accepted their responsibility and that they can be made to do so by the imposition of court orders and financial penalties. In this article I will examine the efficacy of punishing parents for the crimes of their children. I will consider w…
Family Life and Youth Offending
The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal justice system, but this book examines how this evidence can be used to prevent offending in the first place. Examining the relationship between the c…
Young Offenders and the Law
How does the law deal with young offenders, and to what extent does the law protect and promote the rights of young people in conflict with the law? These are the central issues addressed by Young Offenders and the Law in its examination of the legal response to the phenomenon of youth offending, and the contemporary forces that shape the law. \n \nThis book develops the reader’s understanding of the sociological, criminological, historical, poli…
Protecting the Best Interests of the Child
In the Republic of Ireland the government has proposed amending the Irish Constitution in order to improve children's rights. In this article I will argue that the proposed amendment represents a serious diminution in the rights historically afforded to young people who offend, disregards Ireland's commitments under international law and also ignores the well established link between child maltreatment and youth offending. The Irish approach echo…
Jane B. Sprott and Anthony N. Doob, Justice for Girls? Stability and Change in the Youth Justice Systems
Sprott and Doob aim to use female juvenile offending as "a lens through which one can better observe, and thus, understand" the youth justice systems of the United States and Canada.The purpose of this comparative approach is to help in unravelling the puzzle of girls, juvenile crime and the criminal justice system.Virtually all literature on juvenile offending focuses on male participation in juvenile offending behaviour.This inattention to fema…
Let no one despise your youth”
Purpose The youth justice system in England and Wales has been subjected to numerous transformations since 1997 under New Labour governments. Most approaches to the field during the period under review address the fine details of what is a politically and organisationally modernised domain. Even though this paper steps inside the system to observe some of its transformative developments, it aims to begin at the other end which enables a more roun…
Rethinking the Criminal Responsibility of Young People in England and Wales
In 2010 two boys, aged 10 years, were convicted of the attempted rape of an eight year old girl in England.This article will consider the question of when is it fair to hold young people criminally responsible and to subject them to the full rigours of a criminal trial.It examines the assumption that children today are maturing at an earlier age and argues that the law needs to recognise that children may not yet be developed enough to understand…
Punishing children for their behaviour
This article examines the laws which regulate how children are punished from two perspectives – it examines parents' rights to physically punish their children for their misbehaviour and the right of the state to criminally punish young people from the age of 10 years for engaging in offending behaviour. The article considers the laws in these areas and assesses whether these laws are consistent with the social science research on this topic
Troubling Times for Young People and Families With Troubles – Responding to Truancy, Rioting and Families Struggling With Adversity
The Big Society was one of the UK Prime Minister’s flagship policy ideas prior to his election in 2010 and has since become part of the UK coalition government’s legislative programme. A key aspect of the Big Society is to mend ‘societally Broken Britain’ by supporting families, as ‘strong families are the foundation of a bigger, stronger society’. However, in the aftermath of the riots of August 2011 in London and other parts of England, the UK …
Recognising children's citizenship in the youth justice system
Citizenship literature has tended to portray children as ‘citizens in the making’ or as citizens invested with full agency. English law treats young people in an ambiguous fashion, sometimes as pre-citizens and consequently in need of protection and sometimes as full citizens, principally so in the context of the youth justice system. This article will examine how neither the view of a child as a ‘citizen in waiting’ or as a citizen with full age…
The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 – Secure Colleges and the Legitimation of State Sponsored Violence
The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 empowers staff in secure colleges to subject young people in custody to dangerous force for the purpose of ensuring ‘good order and discipline’. The use of force to restrain young people in custody can cause serious physical injury, profound psychological damage and has contributed to the custodial deaths of two young people in 2004. Despite these dangers, in most youth custodial establishments the use of …
The role of lawyers in supporting young people in the criminal justice system
Legal aid reductions have caused a crisis in the criminal justice system impacting the quality of representation and advice provided by lawyers. This paper is particularly concerned with the impact of these cuts on young people in the youth criminal justice system. The paper will examine how changes to the way in which defence lawyers are funded is having a damaging impact upon the experience of young people involved in the criminal justice syste…
Re-Designing Secure Children’s Homes Through a Child-First Lens
This article explores existing learning gaps concerning optimal ways to support children within and beyond secure care in England and Wales, with a specific focus on Secure Children’s Homes (SCHs). Insights from key stakeholders working in SCHs are often omitted from research despite being fundamental to understanding both challenges and best-practice initiatives. The Children’s Residential Care Research Network, which is a collaboration between …
Reforming the law on the physical punishment of children in England and Northern Ireland
Criminology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Economic Justice (9 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Criminal justice (6 works)