''A closer look at the care system, youth offending and the criminal justice system in the West Midlands — and why we need to ask what happens to young people long before they enter custody''. When we talk about young people entering the criminal justice system, we often focus on the offence. What happened? What did they do? What sentence did they receive? But how often do we stop and ask a different question? What happened to that young person before they ever entered the cr