Juvenile delinquency
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- How can we identify children that are at risk of offending at an early stage? How can we prevent the transmission of intergenerational offending to children and young people in families with a history of offending? How can we minimise the criminogenic impact of a child’s contact with the youth justice system?
- What works and for whom to prevent and divert children and young people from offending? How effective are community resolutions including Out of Court Disposals?
- How do the regimes children receive in custody support desistance from crime on release, as well as their wider educational, personal and social development?
- What are the risk factors for children’s involvement in serious violence and what interventions and approaches are most effective in reducing it?
- What works, for whom, to support effective transition and resettlement from custody into the community? In particular, for children and young people.
- How can we improve the transition from the secure estate for children and young people to the adult estate?
- What factors will create an effective performance framework for youth offending teams (YOTs)?
- How effective are youth justice services at achieving positive, non-justice outcomes that support desistance from offending? How can we better support youth justice services to share information and coordinate their interventions to provide holistic support?