Dr Kathy Hampson

The Long Shadow of ‘Populist Punitiveness’—Why Public Opinion May Not Preclude Increasing the Age of Criminal Responsibility in England and Wales This article provides one of the first broad reviews of global research on public opinion regarding the age of criminal responsibility (ACR) alongside findings from a small-scale exploratory survey o...

Read our new article (open access!) exploring 'The Long Shadow of ‘Populist Punitiveness’—Why Public Opinion May Not Preclude Increasing the Age of Criminal Responsibility in England and Wales' with Prof Harriet Pierpoint onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Centrality of ‘Guilt’ in Youth Justice – Conceptualising Child ‘Guilt’ for Child First Justice - Kathy Hampson, Stephen Case, Roger Smith, Rosemary Toll, 2025 Children are extremely vulnerable yet often treated as adults, measured by adult-centric conceptualisations of ‘guilt’ and expected to decide on their own culpa...

Very excited that our new article questioning children's ability to understand complexities around accepting guilt has now been published journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Please share!
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Read my new chapter with Prof Steve Case 'Participation in youth justice research: involving children in the telling of their own stories' in the 'Research Handbook on Youth Criminology' available here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Petition: Make the teaching of criminal offences & their consequences compulsory in school We want the government to include criminal law within the national curriculum for all schools within PSHE. We want students to be taught what is illegal, thinking/reasoning around crime and how to avo...

Consider signing this petition to get legal education into schools (primary schools, before they turn 10, such is the outrageous age of criminal responsibility here), as they currently have very little petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
(Also, article hopefully surfacing soon on this!)

We are excited to share our practitioner pack (for all agencies involved youth justice) from our recently concluded Nuffield funded project on Child First collaboration yjresourcehub.uk/practitioner... @nuffieldfoundation.org @nayouthjustice.bsky.social @theayj.bsky.social. Please share!

A special issue of Societies Journal: Youth Justice: Social Policy, Social Work and Practice www.mdpi.com/journal/soci... @drkathyhampson.bsky.social

Thanks Mark - will take a look

Youth Justice Statistics: 2023 to 2024

Youth justice stats - some don't look good...increases in offending after custody, increases of custody use (is this due to knife crime policies?), still too many children remanded (62% don't then get custody), still too much disproportionality tinyurl.com/3t5syrnv

Five reasons to abolish short-term custodial sentences for children - Russell Webster Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful decarceration according to Dr Kathy Hampson and Dr Anne-Marie Day.

Five reasons to abolish short-term custodial sentences for children
Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful #decarceration according to Kathy Hampson and Anne-Marie Day.
www.russellwebster.com/five-reasons...

I agree completely that youth justice ought to be in a child-focused department, but how about a department for children covering ALL matters concerning them and truly understanding what makes a child a child?
Interestingly, putting YJ into education would require devolution to Wales!

Five reasons to abolish short-term custodial sentences for children - Russell Webster Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful decarceration according to Dr Kathy Hampson and Dr Anne-Marie Day.

Read our blog here on why Detention and Training Orders should be abolished www.russellwebster.com/five-reasons... kindly hosted by Russell Webster, with @anne-marieday.bsky.social #youthjustice #ChildFirst #criminology Let's have a conversation!

Harmful, Expensive and Criminogenic: The Case for Abolishing Detention and Training Orders in England and Wales Abstract. Children who offend generally receive community sentences, to help them overcome difficulties whilst naturally addressing offending behaviour; ho

Hi everyone, to kick off my maiden post please read our newly published paper in the BJC which argues for the abolition of all short term custodial sentences for children, and presents an alternative, viable, cost effective model @drkathyhampson.bsky.social

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Read our new open access article in the British Journal of Criminology proposing a realistic route to decarceration for children in England & Wales academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
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