Barred from Change
The Incarceration of Children and Young People in Northern Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8088674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Moore (Dr Linda Moore and Dr Una Convery are Lecturers in Criminology, the School of Policy Studies at the University of Ulster., corresponding author), Una Convery (Dr Linda Moore and Dr Una Convery are Lecturers in Criminology, the School of Policy Studies at the University of Ulster.) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-94 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Issues in Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1034-5329 • E-ISSN: 2206-9542 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10345329.2008.12056188 |
| OpenAlex | W2219579212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Based on primary research conducted for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (Convery & Moore 2006)1 this article explores the care of children in the Juvenile Justice Centre for Northern Ireland [JJC or the Centre] in the context of their rights. The research followed from a previous Commission investigation (Kilkelly et al 2002) which identified serious breaches of rights. Still in Our Care was based primarily on qualitative research with children, staff and managers in the JJC where children aged 10 to 17 were remanded or sentenced to custody. This article concludes that despite legislative change and various reviews of the youth justice system, the state in Northern Ireland persists in consigning some of the most vulnerable and challenging children to incarceration within a ‘total institution’ (Goffman 1961) from the industrial and reformatory schools of the 19th century, through to the juvenile justice centre of the 21st century. Finally, the article considers the need for a transformation in the state's response to children in conflict with the law and the potential of the Bill of Rights process for achieving this
Commission · Context (archaeology · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Ethnology · Geography · Human rights · Institution · Legislature · Northern ireland · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · State (computer science · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Irish and British Studies · Law · Public Administration
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |