@article{ref1,
title="Contextualising youth justice interventions: making the case for realist synthesis",
journal="Sustainability (Basel)",
year="2022",
author="Sutton, Charlie E. and Monaghan, Mark and Case, Stephen and Greenhalgh, Joanne and Wright, Judy",
volume="14",
number="2",
pages="e854-e854",
abstract="This article examines the problematic reductionism and decontextualising nature of hegemonic youth justice intervention evaluation and offers a way ahead for a realistic, context-sensitive approach to intervention evaluation in the youth justice field. It opens by considering how the development of risk-based youth justice interventions in England and Wales flowed from and fed into the modernisation and resultant partiality of the 'evidence-base', which shaped youth justice practice. It then moves to a critical review of the emergence and continued influence of risk-based interventions and the 'What Works' intervention evaluation framework in youth justice. In the closing discussion, this article envisages the potential of taking a realist approach to the evaluation of youth justice interventions to mitigate the limitations of current approaches to intervention selection and the evaluation of their 'effectiveness'.  Keywords: Juvenile justice <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2071-1050",
doi="10.3390/su14020854",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14020854"
}