Youth Sentencing

• Aim of Youth Sentencing

  • Prevent re-offending
  • Rehabilitate their behaviour
  • Reparing damage caused to society
• Types of Sentancing

  • Referral order
  • Parenting order
  • Conditional Discharge
  • Absolute Discharge
  • Reparation Order
• Out of Court Disposals

  • Youth Restorative Disposal
  • Youth Caution
  • Youth Conditional Caution
  • Youth Rehabilitation Order (Criminal Justice Act 2003, s147)
• Custodial Sentances (Legal Authority)

  • Detention and Training Order - s100-106 Powers of the Criminal Courts Act 2000
  • Life imprisonment - s90-91 Powers of the Criminal Courts Act 2000