TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Ecological youth justice: understanding the social ecology of young people's prolific offending
JO  - Youth justice
A1  - Johns, Diana F.
A1  - Williams, Kate
A1  - Haines, Kevin
SP  - 3
EP  - 21
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
N2  - This article outlines a social-ecological approach to understanding young people's prolific offending and effective youth justice responses to it. Seeing young people through the lens of interactions and relationships - with family, peers, community and the broader socio-cultural-political context - gives insight into the type of interventions that can most effectively disrupt their offending and enhance their wellbeing. These insights have implications for the way in which youth offending teams engage with young people, in their social context, to bring about positive change in their lives. Effective interventions, we argue, focus on engaging young people in normalising relationships, over time.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1473-2254
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473225416665611
ID  - ref1
ER  -