ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank everyone involved in this study. First and foremost, we are extremely grateful to the young people, clerks, reporters, panel members and lawyers who gave up their time to speak to us. We would also like to thank staff at the secure units we visited for the invaluable help and support they gave us in recruiting young people to the study and the practical assistance they gave in providing venues for those interviews. We are very grateful to the steering group at the Scottish Government and the research managers - Fiona Dill and Marie-Amélie Viatte - for the advice and support they have given us throughout the research. Thanks are also due to Chris Creegan for his help with interviewing and his advice throughout the project (in particular his comments on this report). Thank you to Sara Scott, Irene Miller, Anne Birch, Penelope Smirthwaite and Susan Macleod for their help in interviewing professionals and young people, and to Hayley Neil, Rachel Kinsella, Lisa Given and Susan McConville for their assistance with charting.
Responsibility for this report lies wholly with the authors.
Rachel Ormston & Louise Marryat