{"id":3450,"date":"2025-10-28T10:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmuperu.co.uk\/bjcj\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:09:38","slug":"beyond-the-amelioration-of-prison-practice-children-young-people-and-penal-abolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmuperu.co.uk\/bjcj\/articles\/beyond-the-amelioration-of-prison-practice-children-young-people-and-penal-abolition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beyond the Amelioration of Prison Practice\u2019: Children, Young People and Penal Abolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;3&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;1000&#8243;][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; position_horizontal=&#8221;left&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;2&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; align_mobile=&#8221;align_left_mobile&#8221; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text_color=&#8221;color-210407&#8243; text_font=&#8221;font-128611&#8243; text_size=&#8221;h3&#8243; text_weight=&#8221;500&#8243;]Articles[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_separator sep_color=&#8221;color-210407&#8243; el_height=&#8221;1px&#8221;][vc_custom_heading auto_text=&#8221;yes&#8221; text_color=&#8221;accent&#8221; text_font=&#8221;font-128611&#8243; text_size=&#8221;h1&#8243; text_weight=&#8221;500&#8243;]This is a custom heading element.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;289894&#8243;]<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 110px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\"><span class=\"font-810834\">Published<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%;height: 22px\">28\/10\/2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\">Type<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%;height: 22px\">Article<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\">Author(s)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%;height: 22px\">Deena Haydon &amp; Phil Scraton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%\">Corresponding Authors<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\">DOA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 67.0823%;height: 22px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px\">\n<td style=\"width: 32.9177%;height: 22px\">DOI<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48411\/y7mb-7427\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48411\/y7mb-7427<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW1601824 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW1601824 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"heading 5\">Civil rights organisations and critical social research demonstrate that, within advanced democratic states, economic marginalisation and political exclusion &#8211; institutionalised and manifested in structural relations of classism, racism and sexism &#8211; underpin systemic criminalisation and incarceration. 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