http://www.nacro.org.uk/templates/news/newsItem.cfm/2005022100.htm
"A Better Alternative is the third, and final, report in a series from Nacro's Committee on Children and Crime. Previous reports - A failure of justice and Counting the cost - showed how youth custody has risen sharply since the early 1990s, without any corresponding increase in the volume or seriousness of youth crime. The increase in incarceration is simply a result of more punitive sentencing and remand decisions. At the same time, depriving children of their liberty is ineffective in terms of preventing further offending, is expensive and does incalculable damage to young people who are already among the most vulnerable in society"
