Evaluating Youth Justice in the UK
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12470587 |
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| Authors | Ian Paylor (Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster LA1 4YL, UK, corresponding author), Cheryl Simmill‐Binning, Cheryl Simmill-Binning |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-349 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/109821400402500305 |
| OpenAlex | W1990882493 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
In the UK, following the Crime and Disorder Act of 1998, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) funded over 450 separate crime prevention schemes. The YJB in approving these various schemes stressed the importance of monitoring and evaluation. Local evaluators were appointed whose role was to report back to the funding agency and the national evaluators. We were commissioned to undertake the local evaluation of four separate schemes. This article attempts an overview of the evaluation process and identifies five crucial areas that raise questions about whether the Youth Offending Teams are the ‘unqualified success’ and such a fine example of ‘joined-up government’ that the Youth Justice Board claims (YJB, 2001). In this article, we examine the setting up process (and offer a case study of one particular scheme), issues of inter-agency work and the links between schemes and local communities; procedures and protocols and on what evidence policy was being based; the relationship between the national and local evaluators (and other stakeholders); and finally, the feasibility of achieving the scheme’s ambitions given the duration of the funding and the resources available
Agency (philosophy · Economic Justice · Government (linguistics · Local government · Political science · Process (computing · Program evaluation · Public relations · Scheme (mathematics · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration
Linking Data
The Demonization of Children
Youth Justice
Partnerships Between the Independent Sector and the Probation Service
The Forgotten Voice
Partnership in Practice
Probation Partnerships Revisited
Policing by risks and targets
Condemn a Little More, Understand a Little Less’
Institutionalized intolerance
New Labour and the third way in the British welfare state
Partnership between the probation service and voluntary sector organizations
Misjudged Youth
The Debate about Quantitative and Qualitative Research
| Highly cited | No |
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