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Numerous children are imprisoned across the globe in deplorable conditions, despite international legal conventions which suggest that children should be detained only as a last resort. In 2014, the United Nations commissioned a global study of children deprived of liberty; using a broad range of data, researchers in this study estimated that across the globe, there were 1.5 million children detained in criminal justice-related matters throughout 2018 (Nowak, 2019 The United Nations global study on children deprived of liberty. Geneva: United Nations, 2019: 41). This handbook brings together the perspectives of researchers, advocates, and young people themselves on the shape, experiences, and challenges to the imprisonment of young people.
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Cox, A., Abrams, L.S. (2021). Introduction. In: Cox, A., Abrams, L.S. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68759-5_1
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