Citation

Stone N. Youth Justice 2017; 17(1): 73-84.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, National Association for Youth Justice, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1473225416686173

PMID

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Abstract

A residual, downstream issue for youth justice concerns the sentencing of those who offended as juveniles but do not come before a criminal court until later, sometimes much later, in life. Such instances most commonly feature youthful sexual offending where the victim, especially where she or he too was a child when offended against, has been inhibited in making conplaint or disclosure, whether through some sense of shame, embarrassment, distrust, fear of recrimination/blame or of not being belieed, intimidationor emotional conflict over what is for the best. The prosecution of historic crime may also arise in the context of homicide where it is not apparent until much later that a crime has been committed (e.g. by belated discovery of a body) or the identity of the perpetrator comes to light only through advances in forensic science...

Language: en