Challenging Offending Behavior in Residential Centers for Young Offenders
Author: Ashley Seaford.; Shirley Johnson.
Source: Volume 06, Number 04, November/December 2002 , pp.49-51(3)
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Abstract:
In the past, residential centers providing youth justice programs in New Zealand have focused primarily on containing young offenders. Attempts to address young people’s offending tended to be practical, straightforward and easy to implement. Over the past four years, the Kingslea Residential Center has made a break with this and has been developing a program, Challenging Offending, to teach participants a variety of intellectual, social and interpersonal skills that will hopefully go some way to reducing rates of re-offending. This article outlines the development and content of the program.Keywords: Juvenile detention
Affiliations:
1: Kingslea Residential Center; 2: Kingslea Residential Center.