| NCJ Number: |
212212  |
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| Title: |
Research Into Effective Practice With Young People in Secure Facilities, Report to the Youth Justice Board |
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| Corporate Author: |
Hobbs & Hook Consulting
United Kingdom |
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| Date Published: |
April 2001 |
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| Page Count: |
54 |
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| Sponsoring Agency: |
Hobbs & Hook Consulting
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
London SW1H 9AJ, |
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| Sale Source: |
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
102 Petty France
London SW1H 9AJ,
United Kingdom |
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| Type: |
Report (Study/Research) |
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| Format: |
Document (Online) |
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| Language: |
English |
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| Country: |
United Kingdom |
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| Annotation: |
This report presents effective practice with young people in secure facilities from both a research and current practice perspective. |
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| Abstract: |
It is now an accepted tenet of work, with both adult and juvenile offenders, that programs of intervention should be designed, delivered, and evaluated in accordance with the successful features highlighted by the research. This report attempts to identify what steps the Youth Justice Board needs to take to increase the adoption of effective practice in work with juveniles in custody, to prevent them from reoffending. The report describes what work is currently being undertaken with juveniles serving custodial sentences and compares this with known effective practice from the research literature. Interviews were carried out with each secure establishment: the Local Authority Secure Units (LASUs), the Young Offender Institutions (YOIs), and the Secure Training Centers (STCs). To identify what is known to be effective practice, a broad range of literature on working with juveniles and adults in custody and in the community was reviewed. The review of the literature found that research specifically on juveniles in custody lags behind both that for adults and for juveniles in the community. However, the evidence suggests that the broad principles of effective practice with offenders would appear to apply regardless of age and setting. A number of issues emerged to form a basis for recommendations, such as the need to increase knowledge about existing effective practice, the need to build on the strengths of current practice, and the need to improve continuity between custody and community. Recommendations presented to the Youth Justice Board were in the areas of how to increase the knowledge base and how to develop a strategy to increase the integration of effective practice. Appendixes A-D |
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| Main Term(s): |
Juvenile Corrections/Detention effectiveness |
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| Index Term(s): |
Correctional institutions (juvenile); Effectiveness; Inmate academic education; Inmate social programs; Juvenile inmates; Juvenile offenders; Juvenile treatment methods; Services effectiveness; Treatment effectiveness; United Kingdom (UK) |
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To cite this abstract, use the following link:
http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=233685 |
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