MAKING OUR KIDS CRIMINALS
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, questions the Government's Respect agenda.
Friday 24th February 7.35pm
Tuesday 28th February 3.15am
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, questions the Government's Respect agenda.
Friday 24th February 7.35pm
Tuesday 28th February 3.15am
She argues that the criminalisation of children has worrying consequences for the future, reinforcing divisions between the different generations in society and damaging the next generation's respect for law and order.
She argues that too many children are being swept into the criminal process and a generation of kids is being demonised.
Shami meets various experts and young people themselves, including Britain's former most senior female judge Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Camila Batmanghelidjh, the director of Kids Company, a pioneering project for troubled children, and a mother who has two children on ASBOs and a third facing the threat of an ASBO.
She also meets Professor Rod Morgan, the Home Secretary's appointed Chair of the Youth Justice Board and the Children’s Commissioner for England and Professor Al Aynsley-Green, who both voice concerns about the naming and shaming of kids on ASBOs.
She argues that too many children are being swept into the criminal process and a generation of kids is being demonised.
Shami meets various experts and young people themselves, including Britain's former most senior female judge Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Camila Batmanghelidjh, the director of Kids Company, a pioneering project for troubled children, and a mother who has two children on ASBOs and a third facing the threat of an ASBO.
She also meets Professor Rod Morgan, the Home Secretary's appointed Chair of the Youth Justice Board and the Children’s Commissioner for England and Professor Al Aynsley-Green, who both voice concerns about the naming and shaming of kids on ASBOs.