Research

Tackling youth violence: research evidence

Peter Henderson, the Youth Endowment Fund’s head of toolkit, on why the organisation has created a resource summarising the best research on different approaches to preventing serious youth violence.
Cognitive behavioural therapy has been shown to be highly effective reducing crime. Picture: Photographee.eu/Adobe Stock
Cognitive behavioural therapy has been shown to be highly effective reducing crime. Picture: Photographee.eu/Adobe Stock

Which services or programmes have the best chances of preventing children and young people from becoming involved in violence? Where’s my budget best spent to keep my community safe?

These are tough questions, with real consequences, that police forces, local authorities, youth charities and school leaders routinely grapple with. There’s no silver-bullet or “one size fits all” solution, but research can help separate the approaches that might work from those that are doomed to fail.

Finding reliable research is difficult. All too often knowledge about “what works” is hard to access, hidden behind journal paywalls or on complicated websites. Even when research can be accessed, it’s hard to understand, written in academic jargon without clear recommendations on what should be invested in.

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