TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - 'A vexed question': sentencing historic youthful offending
JO  - Youth justice
A1  - Stone, Nigel
SP  - 73
EP  - 84
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
N2  - A residual, downstream issue for youth justice concerns the sentencing of those who offended as juveniles but do not come before a criminal court until later, sometimes much later, in life. Such instances most commonly feature youthful sexual offending where the victim, especially where she or he too was a child when offended against, has been inhibited in making conplaint or disclosure, whether through some sense of shame, embarrassment, distrust, fear of recrimination/blame or of not being belieed, intimidationor emotional conflict over what is for the best. The prosecution of historic crime may also arise in the context of homicide where it is not apparent until much later that a crime has been committed (e.g. by belated discovery of a body) or the identity of the perpetrator comes to light only through advances in forensic science...<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1473-2254
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473225416686173
ID  - ref1
ER  -