Applying Sen’s Capabilities Approach to the Delivery of Positive Youth Justice

Kate Williams; Heddwen Daniel

doi:10.1177/1473225420953208

Applying Sen’s Capabilities Approach to the Delivery of Positive Youth Justice

Kate Williams, Heddwen Daniel

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Since 2000 the Welsh Government’s (WG) policy has been to provide rights and entitlements to all children in Wales. However, this is not fully implemented partly due to an underspecified meaning of ‘children first’ and ‘well-being’ and their role in relation to ‘justice’. We propose that clarity could be achieved through a novel exploitation of Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach to achieving social justice. This would require the identification and mitigation of socio-structural barriers which undermine the ability of a child to live a positive life, a life where they can meet their full potential without harm to themselves or others.

Original language	English
Journal	Youth Justice
Volume	00
Issue number	00
Early online date	2 Sep 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225420953208
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 2 Sep 2020

Keywords

Sen’s Capability Approach
children first
making rights and entitlements ‘real’ for children
offenders second
positive youth justice
supporting young people to reach their full potential

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