The report published by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner suggests most children in the youth justice system have suffered abuse, trauma or poverty.
The Punishing Abuse report, one of the most wide-ranging contemporary studies conducted into children in the criminal justice system in this country, argues that a number of children in the youth justice system are being punished as a consequence of the impact on their behaviours of their early abuse and loss.
The report highlights the abuse and adversity that these children have suffered with:
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