Abstract:Very little has previously been documented about judicial decision-making in relation to young people who commit sexual offences. This article begins to address this gap by examining judicial decision-making in cases of young people with sexual offence convictions in one Australian jurisdiction. Employing a qualitative content analysis of sentencing remarks and judgments, it investigates how judicial decision-makers construct this cohort of young people given the ‘central paradox’ that young offenders are typi… Show more
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