Prevention and youth crime
Is early intervention working?
- Author/Editor(s):
- Maggie Blyth, Enver Solomon
- Format:
- Paperback, 136 pages, 245 x 170 mm
- ISBN
- 9781847422637
- Published:
- 19 Nov 2008
- Series:
- Researching Criminal Justice series
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"This edited collection is a timely contribution to debates around ‘early intervention’, particularly in the youth justice sphere......of great interest to the broad intended audience - politicians and policy makers, academics, researchers and practitioners". Laura Kelly in British Journal of Criminology
About This Book
The 2008 UK government Youth Crime Action Plan emphasises prevention and early intervention in different aspects of work with young people who offend or are considered to be 'at risk' of offending. Much of this approach includes targeted work with families and work to reduce the numbers of young people entering the youth justice system. This report takes a critical look at early intervention policies. Through contributions from leading experts on youth work and criminal justice it considers the development of integrated and targeted youth support services and the implications for practice of early intervention policies; analyses the causes of serious violent crime through consideration of issues that address gangs and guns; provides an evaluation of the government's early intervention strategy through the examination of its Sure Start programme and other family initiatives; identifies the psychobiological effects of violence on children and links them to problem behaviour; considers the impacts of family intervention projects and parenting work and compares approaches to early intervention across different jurisdictions and examines the lessons for practice in England and Wales.
Author Biography
Maggie Blyth is independent chair of Nottingham Youth Offending Team and a youth justice specialist. She is also a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales. Enver Solomon is Deputy Director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, an independent charity affiliated to the Law School at King's College London.Contents
Introduction ~ Enver Solomon and Maggie Blyth
Integrated or targeted youth support services: an essay on 'prevention' ~ Howard Williamson
Intervening in gang-affected neighbourhoods ~ John Pitts
Family intervention projects and the efficacy of parenting interventions ~ Judy Nixon and Sadie Parr
Early intervention and prevention: lessons from the Sure Start programme ~ Karen Clarke
Attachment research and the origins of violence: a story of damaged brains and damaged minds ~ Dr Felicity de Zulueta
Early intervention in the youth justice sphere: a knowledge-based critique ~ Barry Goldson
European perspectives on prevention ~ Rob Allen
Conclusion ~ Maggie Blyth and Enver Solomon.
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