Developing a Manifesto for Youth Justice in Northern Ireland – Background Paper (Include Youth), 2008-2009
A commission by Include Youth (an organisation working with young people in conflict with the law), the Background Paper provided an overview of international human rights standards and contrasted these with the experiences of children/ young people in conflict with the law. Launched at an event involving young people, senior policy makers, service managers and practitioners, it was used to inform the responses of many NGOs to the 2011 independent review of the youth justice system in Northern Ireland.
- Report: Haydon, D. (2009) Developing a Manifesto for Youth Justice in Northern Ireland – Background Paper, March 2009, Belfast: Include Youth Link to document
Responses to Young People in Conflict with the Law, 2008-
In addition to teaching sessions about childhood, early intervention and youth justice, presentations, panel discussions and publications about children/ young people in conflict with the law have included:
- Presentation: ‘“I wear a hood, I am a hood”: The experiences of young people in conflict with the law in Northern Ireland’, Youth Justice: Measuring Compliance with International Standards Conference, Cork, Republic of Ireland (2008)
- Article: Convery, U., Haydon, D., Moore, L. and Scraton, P. (2008) ‘Children, Rights and Justice in Northern Ireland: Community and Custody’, Youth Justice, Special Issue: Youth Justice and Children’s Rights – Measuring Compliance with International Standards, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp245-263 Link to document
- Presentation, with Siobhán McAlister and Phil Scraton: ‘The Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law’, Childhood and Transition: a panel on Northern Ireland, Irish Criminology Conference, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland (2009)
- Presentation: ‘Interrogating official discourse concerning children’s rights and youth justice in the UK and Northern Ireland’, North/ South Irish Criminology Conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2010)
- Panel member: ‘Criminal Justice’, Devolution, Policing and Justice Conference, School of Law, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland (2010)
- Respondent: ‘Merging or Diverging? Youth Justice in 5 jurisdictions Seminar, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland (2013)
- Chapter: Haydon, D. and McAlister, S. (2015) ‘Young People, Crime and Justice in Northern Ireland’ in A-M. McAlinden and C. Dwyer (eds) Criminal Justice in Transition: The Northern Ireland Context, Hart, pp301-320 Link to document
- Chapter: Haydon, D. and Scraton, P. (2017) ‘Childhood, Rights and Justice in Northern Ireland’, in L. Weber, E. Fishwick and M. Marmo (eds) Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights, Routledge, pp258-268 Link to document
- Panel member: Care and Crime, Let’s Talk Justice: ‘Care Question Time’ Event, VOYPIC and Include Youth (2017)