1.   For juvenile offenders the White Paper contained proposals for the courts to add a residential care order.

2.   Many juvenile offenders were being put in adult prisons.

3.   Massachusetts closed its traditional, prison-like juvenile corrections institutions and moved its juvenile offenders into small, community-based group homes.

4.   Probation officers and those who treat juvenile offenders within the community say violence is an ongoing problem in the three lockups.

5.   The firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups.

6.   There are short rehabilitation periods for juvenile offenders and persons subject to court orders or disqualifications.

7.   TOUGH measures to allow courts to jail persistent juvenile offenders were promised yesterday in the start of a Government crusade against lawlessness.

8.   However, he gave broad support to the proposal that provision should be made for secure accommodation for persistent juvenile offenders.

9.   The Home Secretary, Kenneth Clarke had referred to the need to do something about the really persistent, nasty little juvenile offenders.