Serious (violent and chronic) juvenile offenders: A Systematic Review of treatment effectiveness in secure corrections

Vicente Garrido Genovés - Luz Anyela Morales  

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Contents

Introduction                                              Why serious juvenile offenders?          

What is a Systematic Review?            Types of studies we are looking for   

History of Systematic Reviews           References  

  What is a Systematic Review?

Systematic Review is a research that use rigorous methods for locating, appraising and synthesizing evidence from prior evaluation studies. It contain a methods and results section, and are reported with the same level of detail that characterizes high quality reports of original research.  Other features of systematic reviews include: (a) explicit objectives, (b) Explicit eligibility criteria, (c) the search for studies is designed to reduce potential bias, (d) each study is screened according to eligibility criteria, with exclusions justified, (e) Assembly of the most compete data possible, (f) Quantitative techniques are used, when appropriate and possible, in analysing results (Farrington y Petrosino, 2001).

Systematic Reviews “essentially take an epidemiological look at the methodology and results sections of a specific population of studies to reach a research-based consensus on a given study topic” (Johnson et al., 2000, p. 35,  as quoted by Welsh and Farrington, 2001).

The “foremost advantage of systematic reviews is that when done well and  with full integrity, they provide the most reliable and comprehensive statement about what works” (Petrosino, Boruch, Soydan, Duggan and Sánchez-Meca, 2001, p.20).

Contents

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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