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Phil Scraton
"The UN Committee presented the UK Government with a raft of recommendations giving greater priority to the general principles of the UNCRC regarding legislative and administrative measures. More specifically it recommended the raising of the age of criminal
responsibility and it criticised the placement of secure training orders on 12 to 14 year-olds, indeterminate detention and the doubling of custodial sentences on 15 to 17 year-olds. It stressed the need for strategies and programmes to ensure appropriate measures promoting the physical and psychological recovery and
social reintegration of children engaged by the youth justice system."
