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A persistent young offender:

“is a young person aged 10-17 years who has been sentenced by any criminal court in the UK on three or more occasions for one or more recordable offences and within three years of the last sentencing occasion is subsequently arrested or has an information laid against him for further recordable offence".

(Tackling Delays in the Youth Justice System: A Consultation Paper. October 1997. Home Office http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/jou/tdyjs.htm

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