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AssetPlus Outcome Evaluation

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

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AssetPlus is the Youth Justice Board’s (YJB) assessment and interventions planning framework and is based on a desistance-centred approach to youth justice, which aims to reduce offending behaviour.

Tackling youth violence: research evidence

Research

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

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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.

Substance Use and Antisocial Behaviour in Adolescence

Research

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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Researchers from University College London’s Centre for Longitudinal Studies analysed data from the Millennium Cohort Study. This study collected information from nearly 10,000 people across the UK on a range of risky behaviours – including antisocial behaviour – when participants were 17 years old in 2018/19. Data on some of those behaviours had also been collected at ages 11 and 14.

Living Through a Lockdown: Reflections and Recommendations from Young People at Risk of Serious Violence

Research

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

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Standing Committee for Youth Justice members Street Doctors, Redthread and MAC-UK have published a report that documents the experiences of children and young people at risk of, or involved in, serious violence during the lockdown, highlighting the lack of support available at a time of distress, confusion and grief.

‘It’s a no-win scenario, either the police or a gang will get you’ Young People and Organised Crime – Vulnerable or Criminal?

Research

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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Much of recent media coverage concerning young people has been on issues related to violence and crime, with knife-crime, child sexual exploitation and county lines especially high on the agenda.

Towards a Contextual Response to Peer-on-Peer Abuse: Research and Resources From MsUnderstood Local Site Work 2013-2016

Research

Monday, July 29, 2019

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This report presents findings and resources from a three-year review exploring contextual safeguarding responses to children's experiences of "peer-on-peer" abuse.

Keeping Kids Safe: Improving Safeguarding Responses to Gang Violence and Criminal Exploitation

Research

Monday, July 29, 2019

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This report by the Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, investigates what it means to be a child gang member in England. In it, she states that gang exploitation is currently not adequately understood, identified, prioritised or responded to.

Ending the Criminalisation of Children in Residential Care - Good Practice in Children's Homes

Research

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

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Over the last two years, Howard League has conducted extensive qualitative research on good practice in the prevention of criminalisation of children in residential care. This report is based on its research findings.

Desistance Approaches in Youth Justice - the Next Passing Fad or a Sea-change for the Positive?

Research

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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This research examines how well the strengths-based desistance approach in youth justice has been rolled out in practice and makes suggestions for areas of improvement.

Contested Vulnerability: A Case Study of Girls in Secure Care

Research

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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This ethnographic study in a secure unit in England explored girls' concepts of vulnerability. It argues that by conflating childhood and vulnerability, the unit disenfranchises girls from services that are designed to help them.

Implementing Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents and Think Trauma for Traumatized Youth in Secure Juvenile Justice Settings

Research

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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This study investigates the impact of implementing trauma informed interventions in juvenile justice settings in the USA.

Ecological Youth Justice: Understanding the Social Ecology of Young People's Prolific Offending

Research

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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This study considers the work of youth offending teams (YOT) with repeat offenders. It advocates using a strengths-based, rather than a risk-based, approach to enable young people's positive development and reduce offending.

Working with Prevent: Social Work Options for Cases of 'Radicalisation Risk

Research

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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The 2015 Prevent duty mandates social workers and other professionals "to pay due regard" to possible radicalisation concerns. However, there is currently no guidance on how practitioners might do this.

'Going Viral' and 'Going Country' the Expressive and Instrumental Activities of Street Gangs on Social Media

Research

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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This study considers the role of the internet in gang culture and activity in the UK. The authors analyse the expressive and instrumental uses of "trap rap" videos posted on YouTube as a means of gaining insight into gang-related activity, such as drug dealing through "working the country lines".

Research Report: Patterns of Offending Behaviour in Relation to Time Spent In and Out of Care

Research

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

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Looked-after children are more likely to have an official record of offending behaviour than the general population.

Service users as the key to service change? The development of an innovative intervention for excluded young people

Research

Monday, April 10, 2017

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Young people affected by street gangs and those at risk of offending often have high levels of unmet mental health needs.

Preventing Youth Offending: Research evidence

Research

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

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Four studies on: Learning disability nursing; Risk, promotive and protective factors; Restorative justice-based practices; and Reinventing Diversion

Long-Term Recidivism Risk of Young Sexual Offenders in England and Wales

Research

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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How the risks posed by juvenile sex offenders change over time.

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AssetPlus Outcome Evaluation

Tackling youth violence: research evidence

Substance Use and Antisocial Behaviour in Adolescence

Living Through a Lockdown: Reflections and Recommendations from Young People at Risk of Serious Violence

‘It’s a no-win scenario, either the police or a gang will get you’ Young People and Organised Crime – Vulnerable or Criminal?

Towards a Contextual Response to Peer-on-Peer Abuse: Research and Resources From MsUnderstood Local Site Work 2013-2016

Keeping Kids Safe: Improving Safeguarding Responses to Gang Violence and Criminal Exploitation

Ending the Criminalisation of Children in Residential Care - Good Practice in Children's Homes

Desistance Approaches in Youth Justice - the Next Passing Fad or a Sea-change for the Positive?

Contested Vulnerability: A Case Study of Girls in Secure Care

Implementing Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents and Think Trauma for Traumatized Youth in Secure Juvenile Justice Settings

Ecological Youth Justice: Understanding the Social Ecology of Young People's Prolific Offending

Working with Prevent: Social Work Options for Cases of 'Radicalisation Risk

'Going Viral' and 'Going Country' the Expressive and Instrumental Activities of Street Gangs on Social Media

Research Report: Patterns of Offending Behaviour in Relation to Time Spent In and Out of Care

Service users as the key to service change? The development of an innovative intervention for excluded young people

Preventing Youth Offending: Research evidence

Long-Term Recidivism Risk of Young Sexual Offenders in England and Wales

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