Both probation and youth justice have undergone massive changes in recent years, and continue to face important new challenges. A key emphasis of new developments has been on developing effective evidence-based practice and disseminating this throughout the Probation and Youth Justice services - reviewed in this book.
Foreword 1. The emergence and importance of evidence-based practice in probation and youth justice 2. Evidence-based practice in the National Probation Service 3. Towards effective practice in the Youth Justice System 4. Assessment tools in probation: their development and potential 5. Is Asset really an asset? Assessment of young offenders in practice 6. Exploring effective educational interventions for young people who offend 7. Probation interventions to address basic skills and employment needs 8. Offending behaviour programmes: emerging evidence and implications for practice 9. Intensive supervision and surveillance programmes for young offenders: the evidence base so far 10. One-to-one ways of promoting desistance: in search of an evidence base 11. Using community service to encourage inclusive citizenship: evidence from the CS pathfinder 12. Opportunity, motivation and change: some findings from research on resettlement 13. Pursuing evidence-based inspection
