The post-primary school court appearances of pupils in one local authority in Wales who had had either very poor or better primary school attendance records

A literature review identified only four articles which reported on longitudinal research studies in which the samples comprised pupils of elementary/primary school age who subsequently became juvenile delinquents/youth offenders. However, unlike the cVPAs and cBAs in the research reported on in this article, in those four studies, none of the pupils in the samples had either very poor or better primary school attendance records who, post-primary school, had appeared before a court. Comparisons of those groups revealed that more of the cBAs had committed theft; one only or two or more offences; been youth offenders or dual-system youths; and received one or more punishments; and more of the cVPAs had appeared before a court on at least one occasion; been non-offending youths who had been subjected to care proceedings for parental reasons only; and been subjected to a care order.