“…Increasing numbers of breaches have been attributed to what Bateman (2005Bateman ( , 2011b, among others, describes as a 'Punitive Turn' in Youth Justice in the mid-1990s. Policy initiatives led to tougher responses to youth crime (Home Office, 1997) and the YJB National Standards (YJB, 2000(YJB, , 2004(YJB, , 2010b became prescriptive (Bateman, 2005), ultimately leading to a rise in the use of custody.…”