In the fifth and final episode of our investigative podcast series We’ve Got Your Boy, we explore the role of love in addressing the issues underpinning serious youth violence in Bristol and beyond. We look at why plans to transform the youth justice system are stalling with the opening, and then sudden closure, of the country’s first ‘secure school’ – a unit and long term government plan that campaigners had high hopes for. Other countries, like Scotland, have long treated serious youth violence as a public health issue instead of a criminal one. Some don’t imprison children under 16 at all. There’s good progress happening here, too, but change is slow.

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Before starting this series, we held a roundtable discussion with experts in the field of youth justice. We spoke about serious violence among young people, the root causes of it, and how it's represented in the media.

Media outlets have lots to learn when it comes to rebuilding trust with the communities they serve, including young people. As does the criminal justice system, and the institutions there to protect children.

The language we use to describe issues like these is important. In this episode, we explore how newspapers frame incidents of serious youth violence, and the damaging impact of sensationalising stories.

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The murder of James Bulger in 1993 by two 10-year-old boys was an horrific act of violence that essentially led to a huge change in the country’s youth justice system: the abolition of the legal term doli incapax (meaning incapable of evil). It meant that children as young as 10 were now deemed capable of committing crime – before then it was 14. Since this shift, England and Wales to this day has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the world. In this episode we challenge the thinking that some children are simply ‘just evil’, and that horrific acts of violence aren’t the symptom of a wide and complex web of social problems that underpin them.

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