We have a Victorian attitude to child offenders. It is harmful to them – and, when they reoffend, damaging to everyone Kirsty Brimelow KC is chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales It is said that there can be no truer revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats its children. Th...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/11/jailing-children-dickensian-delusion-england-wales)