Dan Johnson: young people deserve more than judgmentWhen a young person experiences or witnesses crime the effects can last far beyond the moment itself. In just three years, SAFE has offered therapy to 179 young people and their families across 22 council areas in Scotland. These are children and teenagers who have been the victims of crime, witnesses to violence, or who have lived in homes where abuse and trauma were the norm. And yet we too often treat these moments as isolated incidents, rather than as symptoms of a wider, systemic failure to support young people early and effectively. It’s a statement that young people - however they come into contact with crime - deserve more than judgement.