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3 results foundAuthor: Clarke, Rebecca Title: London Probation Trust Peer Mentoring Evaluation Report Summary: London Probation Trust (LPT), in their aim to reduce reoffending, improve compliance with supervision and provide a more holistic service for offenders decided to work in partnership with voluntary and community sector organisations to provide mentoring services for offenders in London to improve their rehabilitation prospects. The two strands of projects that were evaluated were: - A peer mentoring service for 100 young offenders aged 18-25 who were subject to Intensive Alternative to Custody orders or licenses. Mentoring was offered to support offender management, encourage motivation and enable compliance. Catch22 and St Giles Trust jointly designed and delivered this service. - A mentoring service for women and testing the 'personalisation' agenda to reduce the risk of re-offending. This included an enabling fund to allow women and their mentors to address any unmet needs that supported their rehabilitation. Catch22 designed and delivered this service. The over-arching outcomes for the services were: - Reduced re‐offending rates - Improved attendance/compliance Additional outcomes were: - Improved offender manager and sentencer understanding of the support that can be provided to offenders through mentoring - Increased positive life outcomes through practical and motivational support. - Reduced social exclusion of offenders. - Increased access to community interventions for offenders. - In the case of peer mentoring, peer mentors develop personally and socially through supporting others to develop, keeping their own focus on rehabilitation and boosting their self-‐esteem and confidence. - Develop integrated partnership working with the third sector. Key Findings In the first year: 152 referrals were made to the peer mentoring project (against a target of 150) and 71 referrals were made to the women's project (against a target of 70). - For many young men on the peer project progress in relation to the area of ETE was prioritised. Mentors supported individuals to complete steps towards being ready for and accessing work both in practical terms (with a CV, completing applications) and in relation to their motivation and/or confidence. - The availability of and access to settled and suitable housing was unsurprisingly identified as a key goal for some mentees, with mentors acknowledging the challenge in supporting progress in other areas without resolving this. Both projects recorded some very positive outcomes for service users in relation to housing, inevitably though the mentor plays a specific role support and advocacy and is reliant on other providers prioritising their clients. - The profiling information for the peer project indicated that just over one fifth of the young men referred were assessed and flagged as 'gang involved' by probation staff within their case management system. Details: Manchester, UK: Manchester Metropolitan University, Policy Evaluation & Research Unit (PERU), 2014. 56p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 20, 2015 at: http://www.mmuperu.co.uk/assets/uploads/files/LPT_PM_Interim_report_FINAL.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.mmuperu.co.uk/assets/uploads/files/LPT_PM_Interim_report_FINAL.pdf Shelf Number: 135274 Keywords: Alternatives to IncarcerationDelinquency PreventionJuvenile OffendersMentoring Programs (U.K.)PeersYoung Adult Offenders |
Author: Davis Y. Ja Associates Title: Peers Reaching Out Supporting Peers to Embrace Recovery (PROPSPER): A Final Evaluation Report Summary: The Peers Reaching Out Supporting Peers to Embrace Recovery (PROSPER) program, a 4-year federal demonstration project funded through the Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP) initiative of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), was a unique strength-based peer-to-peer recovery community for people who face the dual challenge of recovery and reentry into society from prison, and their family/significant others, in Los Angeles County. Governed and operated by peers, the program offered stage-appropriate holistic social support through a strategic mix of services comprised of a resource facility, support groups, peer-coaching, workshop/seminars, social and recreational activities, and community events. Featuring Recovery Support, Health & Wellness, and Skills to Prosper components, PROSPER enrolled and served at least 125 new Peers annually, for a total of over 500 Peers served during its four year duration. The project aimed to: - Provide a compelling alternative community to counteract negative forces in peers' lives - Build positive self concept and achievement motivation - Reinforce family/significant others' relationships and support - Amplify the treatment/recovery continuum for the target population. The goals of PROSPER's local evaluation were to: 1) assess the program's effectiveness, 2) identify best practices within the program, and 3) indicate possibilities for expanding and replicating PROSPER elsewhere in California. In addition, PROSPER's strength-based, peer-driven recovery community and the array of social supports (emotional, informational, instrumental, and associational) were designed to test the evidence that social support in the form of a peer support recovery community is a critical construct in providing the transitional resources necessary to reduce relapse and recidivism with this population. Details: San Francisco: Davis Y. Ja and Associates, 2009. 100p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 24, 2015 at: http://www.dyja.com/sites/default/files/u24/PROSPER%20Final%20Evaluation%20Report.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.dyja.com/sites/default/files/u24/PROSPER%20Final%20Evaluation%20Report.pdf Shelf Number: 135384 Keywords: Drug Abuse and Addiction (U.S.)Drug Abuse and CrimeDrug Abuse TreatmentDrug OffendersPeersPrisoner ReentrySubstance Abuse |
Author: Clark, Valerie Title: Correlates and Consequences of Offending and Victimization: An Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescents Summary: This project examined adolescent victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) in order to identify the correlates and consequences of abuse by a romantic partner. Using research and theory from studies of general violence and IPV, this dissertation researched the following five questions: (1) Are early violent offending and violent victimization (non-partner-related) risk factors for IPV victimization? (2) Does the relationship between IPV and other deviant behaviors persist after controlling for early behaviors?; (3) Do peer network characteristics influence these relationships?; (4) Do these relationships vary for male and female adolescents?; and (5) Does the relationship between IPV victimization, general violence, and other deviant behaviors vary depending on whether one or both individuals in the relationship were victimized? Prior research on adolescent IPV suffers from three conceptual and methodological limitations: the lack of longitudinal research, samples limited to female victims, and the absence of peer network influence in models. To address these problems, this research used data from three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a large nationally representative sample of adolescents. Additionally, this study included peer network data, which allowed this research to incorporate peer network characteristics measured directly from the respondent's peers. Part of this research used data from Add Health's secure romantic partnership network data. In these data, respondents who nominated one another as romantic partners were linked, which allowed this study to identify couples in which (a) neither of the individuals reported IPV victimization, (b) one of the individuals reported IPV victimization, and (c) both of the individuals reported IPV victimization. The purpose of making these distinctions was to approximate Johnson‟s (2008) typology of IPV. This is the first study on the correlates and consequences of adolescent IPV to distinguish between IPV victimization that was experienced by only one or both individuals within a couple. A larger goal of this research was to integrate research on general violent victimization and IPV victimization. These two types of victimizations are usually examined separately. Some scholars have argued that IPV victimization is distinct from general violent victimization in terms of origins, correlates, and theoretical explanations. Other scholars have argued that all violence is essentially the same, and IPV research should not be separate from that of research on general violence. This research hypothesized that IPV victimization is both similar to and distinct from general violence; it depends on the type of IPV victimization (i.e., whether the partner violence was mutual or one-sided). This distinction may determine how similar and different IPV is to general violence. The results of this research reveal five major findings. First, both prior violent offending and violent victimization increased the odds of IPV victimization; both engaging in past violence and being a victim of past violence (non-partner-related) increase the risk of IPV victimization. Second, even after controlling for prior instances of deviant behavior, IPV victimization was associated with an increase in short-term deviant behaviors, including violent offending, violent victimization, delinquency, and drug use. However, the size of this relationship is smaller than previously thought, and IPV victimization does not increase all of these behaviors at the same rate for all victims. Adolescents who previously engaged in violent offending, who previously were victims of general violence, and who previously engaged in delinquency actually report fewer of these same subsequent behaviors on average compared to individuals who have not engaged in these behaviors previously. The third major finding was that peer network characteristics did not appear to play a role in IPV victimization, either in predicting victimization or predicting behaviors associated with victimization. However, the measures of peer delinquency used in this study were limited, and further studies of this relationship are necessary. The fourth major finding was that there were some gender differences in causes and correlates of IPV victimization, but not as many differences as some scholars might expect. For example, prior violent offending was a stronger predictor of IPV victimization for males than for females. Prior violent victimization was a stronger predictor of subsequent violent offending and violent victimization for females than for males. Overall, males and females did not differ significantly in many predictors or correlates of IPV victimization. One possible reason for the high proportion of similarities between males and females is the measure of IPV victimization used in this study. This study's measure of IPV victimization likely captured many less-serious instances of IPV victimization, for which males and females likely have similar rates. The final major finding of this study was that there appear to be multiple types of IPV victimization among adolescents, and these multiple types of IPV have different predictors and correlates. Thus, researchers of adolescent and adult IPV should not assume that all instances of IPV are similar. This study has major implications for theory and research on IPV, as well as policy regarding adolescent IPV. One major implication from this research is that some types of IPV victimization appear to be similar to more general forms of violent victimization. Also, theories that are generally used to explain violent victimization may also be applicable to some types of IPV. Finally, when dealing with adolescent IPV victimization, intervention efforts should vary based on whether the violence is perpetrated by both individuals within the relationship or only one of the individuals. Details: State College: Pennsylvania State University, 2010. 239p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed Dec. 10, 2018 at: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/6385 Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/6385 Shelf Number: 153956 Keywords: Adolescents Dating Violence Interpersonal Violence Intimate Partner Violence Peers |