Citation

Johns DF, Williams K, Haines K. Youth Justice 2017; 17(1): 3-21.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, National Association for Youth Justice, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1473225416665611

PMID

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Abstract

This article outlines a social-ecological approach to understanding young people's prolific offending and effective youth justice responses to it. Seeing young people through the lens of interactions and relationships - with family, peers, community and the broader socio-cultural-political context - gives insight into the type of interventions that can most effectively disrupt their offending and enhance their wellbeing. These insights have implications for the way in which youth offending teams engage with young people, in their social context, to bring about positive change in their lives. Effective interventions, we argue, focus on engaging young people in normalising relationships, over time.

Language: en