14 Innovative and theoretically informed intervention programmes for children who offend: The Compass Project

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures and tables v
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Foreword xv
7. Desistance and children: setting the scene 1
8. Theoretical and conceptual perspectives on desistance and children
9. ‘Child First’ and desistance 37
10. Child time, adult time, fugitivity and desistance 57
11. Should desistance thinking be applied to children in the criminal justice system? 73
12. The socio-structural dimensions of desistance
13. Young women and punishment within and beyond the penal system 97
14. Supporting girls in care to desist from offending behaviour 112
15. Black and mixed-heritage boys: desistance through a co-creative Critical Race and postcolonial lens 128
16. Growing in maturity, growing in faith, growing out of crime: the role of children’s and young people’s faith in desistance 147
17. The application of desistance thinking to children
18. Desistance approaches in youth justice: conceptualisations, barriers and enablers 175
19. Summer Arts Colleges: using the arts to promote educational engagement and desistance 194
20. Desistance through participatory practice: involving children in decision-making processes in youth justice 212
21. Relationship-based work with children in the youth justice system 228
22. Through a youth justice practitioner’s lens: would a sentencing alternative to a criminal conviction be a small change with a big impact on children’s desistance? 245
23. Innovative and theoretically informed intervention programmes for children who offend: The Compass Project 261
24. What next for desistance and youth justice? 277
25. Index 290