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Serious (violent and chronic) juvenile offenders: A Systematic Review of
treatment effectiveness in secure corrections |
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Introduction Why serious juvenile offenders? What is a Systematic Review? Types of studies we are looking for History of Systematic Reviews References |
Introduction
We are doing a research about the effectiveness of the correctional intervention apply to institucionalised or incarcerated serious juveniles offenders (violent or chronic). This research is a topic into the Campbell Crime and Justice Group (http://campbell.gse.upenn.edu), which is an international network of individuals who prepare, update, and rapidly disseminate systematic reviews
of high quality research, conducted world-wide on effective methods to
reduce crime and delinquency and improve justice. The
objective of this review is to assess and to compile, in a systematic
way, the outcomes of empirical research about the effectiveness of
treatment programs implemented in secure corrections in order to
decrease the reoffence rate and quality (i.e., type of offence) of
serious (chronic and violent) delinquents. We will classify the outcomes and
characteristics of the identified correctional programs in the following
categories: what works, what does not work, what is promising and what
is unknown, in accordance with the scale proposes for Sherman et al.
(1997) and to discuss the outcomes of the different correctional
intervention programs oriented to institutionalised serious delinquents and to propose, with the support of available
scientific evidence, correctional policy recommendations to reduce the
reoffence (in rate and
quality) in this subgroup of offenders. We had looked for
studies about assessment of correctional intervention applied to serious
offenders in different international databases as PsychoInfo, Criminal
Justice Periodical Index, Dissertation Abstract, National Criminal
Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), Psique (data base of spanish
publications), Sociological Abstracts and Social Planning And
Development Abstracts. We had founded some works useful for our
proposes. However, the information of these databases corresponds – in
general- with English speaking countries such as the United States, Canada,
United Kingdom and Australia, and with published works.
This situation can bias the results due to sources of studies,
the country of origin, language
and the selection process for publication. Unfortunately,
it is possible that some studies are not registered in the databases. We recognize
that it is necessary to do everything possible in order to identify
empirical published and unpublished studies from different countries and
languages. Therefore, we have designed this web site in order to inform
about our research as well as to require for
some information about people, institutions and documents related
to this topic. We
hope that the results of this review will be useful for the political
and professional practice in the crime and justice area, specially
regarding to the treatment of serious young offenders. |
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Introduction Why serious juvenile offenders? What is a Systematic Review? Types of studies we are looking for History of Systematic Reviews References |
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