Quickening the PACE? The use of volunteers as appropriate adults in England and Wales

Pierpoint, Harriet

doi:10.1080/10439460802094678

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“…Again, these developments would bring greater consistency to the amount of time that appropriate adults take to attend and respond, as well as to other aspects of their work, as has been recommended in the existing literature (e.g. Pierpoint 2004Pierpoint , 2008. For example, different categories of appropriate adult have been found to arrive within different timeframes, sometime taking over four hours to attend.…”

Section: Journal Of Social Welfare and Family Law 147mentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Hodgson 1997, White 2002, volunteer appropriate adults (e.g. Pierpoint 2001Pierpoint , 2006aPierpoint , 2008 and paid appropriate adults could remain, particularly as the 'adequate training' referred to in the proposals (listed in Figure 1) is not part of a national programme for all types of appropriate adult.…”

Section: Journal Of Social Welfare and Family Law 147mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In contrast, when social workers were called they usually arrived within two hours during office hours and longer outside of office hours. In another survey of call-outs, by Pierpoint (2008), once contacted, volunteers took between no time and four and a half hours to attend (n ¼ 155, data were missing in 33 cases). In the former cases, no time was taken because the volunteers were already in attendance at the police station having, for example, attended as an appropriate adult for another young person.…”

Section: Journal Of Social Welfare and Family Law 147mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…3.18b). A comparable role exists in a number of other countries (see Pierpoint 2008). Since its creation over 25 years ago, the role of the appropriate adult has received relatively little attention from policymakers and academics.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Extending and professionalising the role of the appropriate adult

Pierpoint

2011

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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The 'appropriate adult' has received relatively little attention from academics and even less from policymakers. That said, when the United Kingdom's Labour government was displaced in 2010, it had just completed, in March 2010, a three-year review of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), which included proposals for extending, professionalising and further reviewing the appropriate adult scheme. Under the new coalition government, the review of the provision of appropriate adults is continuing. It is, therefore, timely to assess the merits of the existing proposals and consider which further issues should be taken into account by the ongoing review. This article makes this assessment with reference to the existing literature, including the previously unpublished results of a survey of professional appropriate adults and their coordinators. The article argues that a number of appropriate adults support the extension and professionalisation of the role and, in practice, have already extended their role, in a manner akin to Marx's (1988) concept of 'creep'. However, the main priority for the new government should be to clarify the definition of the role.

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Section: Journal Of Social Welfare and Family Law 147mentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Journal Of Social Welfare and Family Law 147mentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Journal Of Social Welfare and Family Law 147mentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Extending and professionalising the role of the appropriate adult

Pierpoint

2011

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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“…Research has also shown that for children detained by the police, a priority is to be released as quickly as possible (Littlechild, 1998;Pierpoint, 2008). Indeed, Littlechild noted that children 'are often in a destabilised state as a result of detention, and are very keen to be released at almost any cost as soon as possible ' (1998:8).…”

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Children, Young People and Requests for Police Station Legal Advice: 25 years on from PACE

Kemp

Pleasence²,

Balmer³

2011

Youth Justice

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Informed by data extracted from 30,921 police electronic custody records, drawn from 44 police stations across four police force areas and including 5,153 records of juveniles aged 10 to 17 years, this article examines the take-up of legal advice by children and young people in police stations in England and Wales. There are wide variations in the extent to which juveniles request and receive legal advice when compared to adults but also between juveniles of different ages. Such variations are explored both in relation to the age of detainees and the type and seriousness of offence and case disposal. Also examined are variations based on different police force areas. The implications emanating from children's differential access to legal advice at police stations are considered in relation to children's rights.

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Juveniles in the interrogation room: Defense attorneys as a protective factor.

August

Henderson

2021

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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Juveniles are more susceptible in the interrogation room than adults, due to a host of factors that put them at risk. Scholars have suggested that requiring the presence of a defense attorney during interrogations can protect juveniles from making an unintelligent waiver; variations of this type of policy have been mandated in some states across the United States (e.g., Illinois and California). The current study takes an exploratory, qualitative approach to examine how defense attorneys may act as a protective factor in the interrogation room. We interviewed 19 juvenile defenders using a semistructured interview method; questions focused on experiences in the interrogation room, juveniles' waivers of rights, and protections for juvenile clients. Eight themes emerged that fit broadly into three categories: factors related to juvenile defendants (e.g., dispositional youth susceptibility factors), the interrogation process and system (e.g., law enforcement impact), and safeguards in the system (e.g., requiring attorneys). Data from interviews suggest defense attorneys are rarely present when their juvenile clients are questioned, highlighting that juvenile defendants frequently waive their rights. Defense attorneys are cognizant that juveniles are susceptible to interrogation tactics and are skeptical of the protection parents can provide in this context. Overall, defense attorneys are supportive of laws that require juveniles consult with an attorney prior to waiving their rights or require their presence in the interrogation room but raise a number of logistical concerns and offer possible solutions important for policy (e.g., an "on-call" attorney, or "appropriate adult").

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Quickening the PACE? The use of volunteers as appropriate adults in England and Wales

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Extending and professionalising the role of the appropriate adult

Extending and professionalising the role of the appropriate adult

Children, Young People and Requests for Police Station Legal Advice: 25 years on from PACE

Juveniles in the interrogation room: Defense attorneys as a protective factor.

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