scholarly journals The changing shape of youth justice: Models of practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Smith ◽  
Patricia Gray
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Targeted Intervention ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
People First ◽  
Justice Practice

This article reports on a two-year investigation, which maps out contemporary approaches to the delivery of youth justice in England, in light of substantial recent changes in this area of practice. The findings are derived from a detailed examination of youth offending plans and a series of corroborative semi-structured interviews with managers and practitioners from selected youth offending services. Our inquiry has enabled us to develop a detailed three-fold typology of youth justice agencies’ orientations towards practice, represented as ‘offender management’, ‘targeted intervention’ and ‘children and young people first’; as well as a small number of ‘outliers’ where priorities are articulated rather differently. Our findings enable us to reflect on this evidence to suggest that there are a number of ‘models’ of youth justice practice operating in parallel; and that there does not appear at present to be the kind of ‘orthodoxy’ in place which has sometimes prevailed in this field. We also raise doubts about previous representations of unified models of youth justice presumed to be operative at national or jurisdictional levels. We conclude with a number of further observations about the combined effect of current influences on the organization and realization of youth justice, including the growing emphasis on localized responsibility for delivery and increasingly complex expectations of the service context.

Lost in Translation or a Work in Progress? Developing Desistance-Informed Youth Justice Practice in the Welsh Context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Deering ◽  
Jonathan Evans
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
Case File ◽  
Justice Practice ◽  
Lost In Translation

Abstract This article draws upon empirical research conducted within a Welsh Youth Offending Service (YOS) in 2017–2018. It captured staff responses to the introduction of AssetPlus, an assessment tool intended to complement a corresponding move to desistance-informed practice. Given that YOSs are now expected to develop practice underpinned by desistance theories, the article focuses on how desistance theories were interpreted and translated into one YOS. It was concluded that the introduction of the new practice model suffered from inadequate planning and AssetPlus assessment did little to enhance this shift. In an exercise in Utopianism, the views of practitioners and managers were sought on what constituted ‘ideal’ practice with children in conflict with the law. The researchers found some evidence of support for holistic child-centred social work practice that addressed contextual factors. The study was conducted with a small sample of practitioners and operational managers, involving seven semi-structured interviews, two focus groups (a total of eighteen respondents), case file analysis, document reading and observation. Given the size of the sample, the findings are not regarded as generalisable, but rather as raising important issues and pointers for further research.

Evidence-based skills in Welsh youth justice settings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Ugwudike ◽  
Gemma Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Positive Finding ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Relationship Skills ◽  
Supervision Practice ◽  
Justice Practice ◽  
Integrate Research

This chapter presents the findings of a study that examined supervision skills within three youth offending teams. The study focused on youth justice practice in Wales and its objective was to explore how best to integrate research evidence into frontline practice. It found that participating practitioners employed mainly relationship skills. This is a positive finding but there was limited use of evidence-based skills embedded in what is described as the ‘structuring principle' of effective interpersonal interactions (Bonta and Andrews 2017). The skills are change-focused and they impact on what young people learn during interactions with practitioners and the quality of the influence the practitioners exert over them. This chapter examines the factors that impede the application of structuring skills and concludes with a discussion of the ways in which gaps between research and supervision practice can be bridged to enhance the quality of youth justice practice.

scholarly journals Qualitative study: patients’ and parents’ views on brain tumour MRIs

2019 ◽  
pp. archdischild-2019-317306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Tyldesley-Marshall ◽  
Sheila Greenfield ◽  
Susan Neilson ◽  
Martin English ◽  
Jenny Adamski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Brain Tumour ◽  
No Value ◽  
Brain Tumours ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Parent Preferences ◽  
Over Time

BackgroundMRI is essential to the clinical management of children and young people with brain tumours. Advances in technology have made images more complicated to interpret, yet more easily available digitally. It is common practice to show these to patients and families, but how they emotionally respond to, understand and value, seeing brain tumour MRIs has not been formally studied.MethodsQualitative semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 14 families (8 patients, 15 parents) purposively sampled from paediatric patients (0 to 18 years) attending a large UK children’s hospital for treatment or monitoring of a brain tumour. Transcripts were analysed thematically using the Framework Method.ResultsFour themes were identified: Receiving results (waiting for results, getting results back, preferences to see images), Emotional responses to MRIs, Understanding of images (what they can show, what they cannot show, confusion) and Value of MRIs (aesthetics, aiding understanding, contextualised knowledge/emotional benefits, enhanced control, enhanced working relationships, no value). All families found value in seeing MRIs, including reassurance, hope, improved understanding and enhanced feeling of control over the condition. However emotional responses varied enormously.ConclusionsClinical teams should always explain MRIs after ‘framing’ the information. This should minimise participant confusion around meaning, periodically evident even after many years. Patient and parent preferences for being shown MRIs varied, and often changed over time, therefore clinicians should identify, record and update these preferences. Time between scanning and receiving the result was stressful causing ‘scanxiety’, but most prioritised accuracy over speed of receiving results.

scholarly journals Researching disabled children and young people’s views on decision-making: Working reflexively to rethink vulnerability

Childhood ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Louise Skyrme ◽  
Simon Woods
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Research Assumptions

Issues relating to qualitative research with disabled children and young people will be discussed. Semi-structured interviews with boys who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy were conducted to explore their thoughts on how they might make a decision to take part in medical research. Assumptions about disabled children’s vulnerability can impact how researchers conduct qualitative research, and how they are involved in significant decision-making. Working reflexively and in partnership with children illustrates their competence, supporting reconsideration of their vulnerability.

Principles of clinical examination in children

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharmila Jandial ◽  
Helen Foster
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Clinical Examination ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Whole Child ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Musculoskeletal Development

The clinical examination of children and adolescents is an essential component of assessment, facilitates appropriate interpretation of investigations and is integral to the process of making a diagnosis. The clinical assessment of children and young people differs from that of adults, requiring greater reliance on physical examination as the history may be vague and illocalized and requires knowledge of normal musculoskeletal development, normal motor milestones and different patterns of clinical presentations across the ages. The interpretation of clinical findings needs to be in the context of the whole child and the clinical presentation. The degree of expertise required in clinical skills varies with the clinical practice of the examiner and ranges from the basic screening assessment to a more detailed examination of joints, muscles and anatomical regions. The evidence base for clinical assessment in children and young people is accruing and undoubtedly, competent clinical skills requires learning to be embedded in core child health teaching and assessment starting at medical school and reinforced in postgraduate training.

News, Children, and Young People

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiri Elvestad
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Uses And Gratification ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
People First

Studies of how children and young people relate to news have made important contributions to the field of journalism. As early as the early 1900s, children’s and young people’s news exposure was considered with interest. News exposure plays an important role for citizenship in democracies, and for news media organizations, recruiting new generations of audiences is important for survival in the future. From the early days, scholars have mainly focused on four areas in studies of news children and young people. First, the role of mass media as an agent of political socialization and how news exposure can inspire children and young people to civic engagement. Second, the introduction of television and television news increased the numbers of studies of children’s and adolescent’s emotional reactions to news coverage, and the emotional reactions to violence in the news coverage in particular. Third, an increasing focus on children’s rights and children as a minority group has further inspired studies of representation of children and young people in the news. Finally, inspired by methodological approaches focusing on people’s motivation for the use of different media and how they were used (“uses and gratification” studies), a main area for researchers has been to grasp how children and young people engage with news and how they do so in changed media environments. In the last decade, journalism studies have increasingly focused on how children and young people receive, evaluate, produce, and share news in social media.

41. Youth justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley McAra
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Young People ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the founding principles, operational functioning and impact of the institutions which have evolved across the four nations in the United Kingdom to deal with children and young people who come into conflict with the law. It takes as its principal empirical focus the shifting patterns of control that have emerged over the past twenty years—a period characterized by a persistent disjuncture between normative claims about youth justice, evolving policy discourse, and the impact of youth justice practices on the lives of young people. The chapter concludes by arguing that, unless there is better alignment between these dimensions, justice for children and young people cannot and will never be delivered.

scholarly journals Podrška i pomoć obiteljima djece s teškoćama u razvoju

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Mia Lakatoš ◽  
Lucija Vejmelka
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Therapy Dogs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Emotional Social Support

Therapy dogs, which play a central role in animal-assisted therapy, are trained to support daily activities and promote development of children and young people with disabilities. This qualitative study involved semi structured interviews in September 2016 with seven parents of children with disabilities who use therapy dogs. The interview, which was designed specifically for the purposes of this study, collected data on the types of social support and assistance that the therapy dogs provided, as well as the challenges that the use of such dogs presented. Thematic analysis of the interviews showed that therapy dogs provide instrumental and emotional social support as well as other types of assistance to families, and that the greatest challenges to using such dogs are taking care of them and dealing with lack of information about therapy dogs among users and the general public.

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