Sutton, CE, Monaghan, M, Case, S et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Contextualising Youth Justice Interventions: Making the Case for Realist Synthesis. Sustainability, 14 (2). 854. p. 854. ISSN 2071-1050
Abstract
This article examines the problematic reductionism and decontextualising nature of hegemonic youth justice intervention evaluation and offers a way ahead for a realistic, context-sensitive approach to intervention evaluation in the youth justice field. It opens by considering how the development of risk-based youth justice interventions in England and Wales flowed from and fed into the modernisation and resultant partiality of the ‘evidence-base’, which shaped youth justice practice. It then moves to a critical review of the emergence and continued influence of risk-based interventions and the ‘What Works’ intervention evaluation framework in youth justice. In the closing discussion, this article envisages the potential of taking a realist approach to the evaluation of youth justice interventions to mitigate the limitations of current approaches to intervention selection and the evaluation of their ‘effectiveness’.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | youth justice; realist; realism; what works; intervention; evaluation; risk factors |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Academic Unit of Health Economics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Nuffield Foundation Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2022 16:26 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2022 16:26 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/su14020854 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182606 |