%0 Journal Article
%T Contextualising youth justice interventions: making the case for realist synthesis
%J Sustainability (Basel)
%D 2022
%A Sutton, Charlie E.
%A Monaghan, Mark
%A Case, Stephen
%A Greenhalgh, Joanne
%A Wright, Judy
%V 14
%N 2
%P e854-e854
%X 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>
%G en
%I MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
%@ 2071-1050
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14020854