Council holds follow-up webinar on sentencing young people guideline

The Scottish Sentencing Council and CYCJ are pleased to announce a follow-up to January's highly popular webinar on the Council’s guideline on sentencing young people, which stimulated a great deal of discussion both during the event and afterwards.

This follow-up webinar, hosted by Krista Johnston, the Council’s solicitor member as well as a member of its Sentencing Young People Committee, will feature the first public showing of a series of short animated videos currently being developed by the Council on the guideline’s key themes: maturity, rehabilitation, and the need for an individualised approach to the sentencing of young people.

There will then be a panel discussion with the three expert speakers who gave presentations in January (Dr Suzanne O’Rourke, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh; retired sheriff David Mackie; and Kirsty Giles of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit), followed by a Q&A involving the panel and members of the Council’s Sentencing Young People Committee.

To register for the free event, please click here.