'Alcohol, Young People, and the Police' by David Junior Gilbert

SPARC 2021 Poster No. 11 The results from my work will help to inform the police on how to work with young people whose brain has been damaged by alcohol. Many young people break the law, get in trouble with the police and many end up in prison. There are different reasons why this happens, and one reason may be because when the young person was an unborn baby in the womb, alcohol damaged their developing brain. When alcohol affects the baby’s brain, it can make the growing child unable to understand rules which can cause them to break the law and get in trouble with the police. I will interview people whose brains have been affected by alcohol and also, interview their parents or carers to understand the other things that make them get in trouble with the police. After the interviews, I will use some tests on a computer to measure some other abilities of the young people like their memory and intelligence.