TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a Tailored Model of Youth Justice
T2 - A Qualitative Analysis of the Factors Associated with Successful Placement in a Community-Integrated Facility
AU - Souverein, Fleur
AU - Mulder, Eva
AU - van Domburg, Lieke
AU - Adriaanse, Marcia
AU - Popma, Arne
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Community-integrated facilities provide security and care for justice-involved youth, minimizing risks, while allowing youth to build on protective factors within their community. Literature on the specific factors that determine appropriate placement in a community-integrated facility, versus a more restrictive high-security setting, is scarce. Current screening and assessment tools for youth are mostly applied after placement and mainly focus on the reoffending risk. The current paper explored which youth, who would previously have been placed in a high-security setting, could be successfully placed in a less secure community-integrated facility. Through qualitative analysis, based on the perspectives of professionals, youth and parents, the current paper identified six distinct domains to guide appropriate screening and outlines guidelines for policy and practice. These domains include: motivation to comply, short and long-term perspective, current offense context, crime history, safety and support from youth’s network, and mental health and intellectual abilities.
AB - Community-integrated facilities provide security and care for justice-involved youth, minimizing risks, while allowing youth to build on protective factors within their community. Literature on the specific factors that determine appropriate placement in a community-integrated facility, versus a more restrictive high-security setting, is scarce. Current screening and assessment tools for youth are mostly applied after placement and mainly focus on the reoffending risk. The current paper explored which youth, who would previously have been placed in a high-security setting, could be successfully placed in a less secure community-integrated facility. Through qualitative analysis, based on the perspectives of professionals, youth and parents, the current paper identified six distinct domains to guide appropriate screening and outlines guidelines for policy and practice. These domains include: motivation to comply, short and long-term perspective, current offense context, crime history, safety and support from youth’s network, and mental health and intellectual abilities.
KW - community-integrated youth justice facilities
KW - justice-involved youth
KW - screening and indication
KW - tailored security and care
KW - youth justice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089150669&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0306624X20944689
DO - 10.1177/0306624X20944689
M3 - Article
C2 - 32772654
AN - SCOPUS:85089150669
JO - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
JF - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
SN - 0306-624X
ER -