Challenging Justice Inequalities with Children in Conflict with the Law

Children in conflict with the law often experience significant, multiple and overlapping disadvantage such as abuse, neglect, loss, trauma, poverty, exclusion and other adversities.

These experiences affect how children participate in, or are treated by the justice system, and many minoritised groups are over-represented in justice systems. Yet there is minimal research that considers how intersecting inequalities affect children’s experiences of (in)justice.

Challenging Justice Inequalities aims to address this gap by coproducing a programme of research with children in conflict with the law to develop an unique intersectional understanding of children’s justice experiences.