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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 |
Types of studies that we are looking
for
We are looking for experimental and quasi-experimental studies with
comparison groups and with prior and later assessment of the
intervention. Furthermore,
there will be considered studies in which intervention outcomes are
analysed by comparing relapsing rates and offenses between control and
treatment groups. Participants should be under a judicial supervision system (criminal or
juvenil). A sample of individuals, residential units, specific modules
or even an entire prison may be regarded as treatment or control groups. On the one hand,
program recipients will be juveniles institutionalised in secure
corrections (men and women) between 12 and 21 years old, in the adult or
juvenile jurisdictions. On the other hand, by “secure corrections”
is meant in this review prisons, borstals, training schools, camps,
ranches, special hospitals and any other more modern facility that hold
juveniles accountable for their delinquent acts and
provide a structured treatment environment. There are not
included community programs or programs such as foster care, foster
home, group home, periodical detention and, in general, those in which
delinquents are in contact every day with the community (as Achievement
Place). The
studies are eligible only if the program subjects are characterised as
serious (chronic and violent) delinquents. Reviewers will determine that
the population in the selected studies belongs to this category in
function of the type of offense committed and the youths’
offences and violent history. There will be
included interventions aimed to decrease post treatment relapse when
convicts finish their term. Eligible studies
must report subsequent delinquent or criminal offences as an variable
outcome, for instance measures of general recidivism, self reports on
criminal behaviour on the part of the offender after leaving the program
and serious recidivism. Finally, we are
not going to include studies in which more than 50% of their samples
correspond to sexual offenders. In fact, the sexual offenders have their
own systematic review (lead author Friedrich Lösel). |
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Contents |
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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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