Introduced from Manchester by Helen Boaden
How should we treat young offenders? Does the punishment fit the crime?
PROFESSOR NORMAN TUTT of Lancaster University is the UK's representative on an international committee of experts studying attitudes to juvenile crime throughout
Europe. He's worried about the increasing tendency to imprison young people and the high re-conviction rate.
But in Staffordshire police are running a holiday scheme which they claim has reduced the local juvenile crime rate. Producer LIZ CARNEY BBC Manchester
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