TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Contextualising youth justice interventions: making the case for realist synthesis
JO  - Sustainability (Basel)
A1  - Sutton, Charlie E.
A1  - Monaghan, Mark
A1  - Case, Stephen
A1  - Greenhalgh, Joanne
A1  - Wright, Judy
SP  - e854
EP  - e854
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2071-1050
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14020854
ID  - ref1
ER  -