Clear approach : peer-led approaches in Youth Offender Institutions
Brierley, Andrew (2023) Clear approach : peer-led approaches in Youth Offender Institutions. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 22 (2). ISSN 2976-9353 (https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00087195)
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Abstract
This article undertakes an analysis of His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons’ (HMIP) inspection reports of Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) in England over a 20-year period. The analysis is synthesised with the author’s lived experience of being both an incarcerated child in YOI and a professional working with children in custody. The analysis was instigated by a letter written by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) to the Rt Hon Damian Hinds, Minister of State for Justice, indicating that the current state of affairs in England’s YOIs is ‘positively inhumane.’ The current article argues that YOIs have never been ‘positively humane’, having always fallen short of ‘improving outcomes for children’, through the lens of recidivism. The author argues that YOIs also overlook peer-led programmes to promote children desisting from offending, through illuminating a growing body of evidence which suggests this approach can provide ‘hooks for change’ for children to desist from crime, and that it presents a model of good practice that could be used as a child first approach.
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Item type: Article ID code: 87195 Dates: DateEvent23 November 2023Published31 August 2023AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare > Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice
Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare > Social work with juvenile delinquents. Social work with criminalsDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection (CELCIS) Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 07 Nov 2023 09:31 Last modified: 05 Oct 2024 00:40 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/87195