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Reducing Remands to Care and Custody: Information Pack

NCJ Number
129572
Date Published
1989
Length
62 pages
Annotation
This information package contains papers published by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (UK) on the subject of remanding juvenile offenders.
Abstract
Beginning with a paper outlining the case against remanding juveniles to prison, the package includes brief and more detailed discussions of juvenile remands on bail, care, and custody. Other papers describe the establishment of bail support programs, alternative provisions to remands in care and custody, and the use of secure accommodation. Another briefing outlines new government charge and control regulations for the remand to care of juveniles. A directory of bail support schemes in the UK by region and a list of further reading are provided in the package.