juvenile justice, youth offending, child criminal exploitation, youth gangs
Aims 1. To understand the role of specialist teams of mental health law enforcement. For this phase I will be in Houston Texas, learning about crisis intervention policing and the mental health warrant system that is in place in Harris County Texas. 2. To observe how a community organisation is working with young people and …
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Young people who are gang involved can present a particular challenge to youth workers not least of all because any intervention needs to take account of the influence of the group in addition to the individual. Research has demonstrated that gang-involved youth pose unique and different risk factors compared to non-affiliated youth who offend. They …
Policing During the final week of my Churchill Fellowship I returned to Harris County Constable’s Office Precinct 1 to learn more about the work of their Juvenile Division, which is responsible for the civil process of receiving and serving subpoenas and warrants from Harris County Juvenile District Courts. In many respects this is a parallel process …
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The National Gang Crime Center Conference 2019 I spent a week of my Churchill Fellowship in Chicago. This part of my research trip enabled me to observe local community interventions and also attend the annual National Gang Crime Research Center (NGCRC) Conference. The conference runs over a four-day period and brings together Academic researchers, Law …
As part of my Churchill Fellowship, I visited colleagues at the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice based just outside Louisville. My first day was spent talking to staff at one of the Day Treatment Programs in order to understand more about how the DJJ in Kentucky supports young people who have been excluded from mainstream schools, …
Crime "mentors" Criminal “mentors” have been found to influence many young people during their early involvement in crime. These “mentors” can be peers, but they are typically older people who are now recognised as exploiting young people, often for financial gain through crime (Morselli, Tremblay & McCarthy, 2006). It is crucial, therefore, when attempting to …
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Why MHSO? As part of my Churchill Fellowship I wanted to look more broadly at how the CJS responds to some of the key risk factors relating to gang involvement. I will be writing in a later post about how gang units in the USA can work effectively with gang involved youth and their communities …
travel fellowship had been successful. I had applied to undertake research in the USA on gangs. Churchill Fellows are able to travel overseas to learn from international practice. The Trust offers a number of fellowships each year and has become increasingly important in both the research and dissemination of criminal justice practice by both academics …
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