Vol 39 No 2 April 2018 Of Political Psychology On Jstor

Given the continued growth and explosion of information and interest in political psychology, there is an increasing need for a place where cumulative research findings and theoretical developments are synthesized and integrated in a... The Advances in Political Psychology annual series is intended to fill this need by recording the state of the field and highlighting innovative developments so that those who are interested can keep abreast of... Each annual volume will include a selection articles that capture the diversity of subject matter studied by political psychologists. You can read Advances in Political Psychology by clicking on the link and going to the Wiley Online Library (WOL) site. Current ISPP members can log in on that site with their WOL credentials and read all content in Advances in Political Psychology free of charge. Marco Steenbergen – University of Zurich

Click here to view the editorial board members. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit... The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from... To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Rehabilitative approaches to working with young people in the youth justice system have been identified as effective in reducing recidivism, with the centrality of relationships being core to these approaches.

There is a limited evidence base exploring young people’s experience of professional relationships within youth justice systems. This review aims to explore young peoples’ experience of relationships with professionals within youth justice services and understand what is important to their engagement. Five databases were systematically searched for relevant peer-reviewed qualitative and mixed-method journal articles. Seven papers were included in this review. Data were analysed using a meta-synthesis approach. PRISMA and ENTREQ guidelines were followed.

Analyses yielded four themes: Feeling valued and finding worth in the system; The reciprocal nature of understanding and respect; nobody trying to help and no one to try for; and the importance of having... The importance of the relationships between youth justice professionals and young people are discussed. Limitations and implications for research, practice and policy are also discussed. Keywords: Youth justice, Young people, Professional relationships, Diversion, Restorative justice, Qualitative evidence synthesis In recent years, there has been a reduction of recorded youth crime internationally. These trends have been documented in both official police documents and through independent studies (Svensson & Oberwittler, 2021; Baumer, 2018).

These declining trends have been highlighted in several countries, including the United States (Arnett, 2014), New Zealand (Polglase & Lambie, 2024) and across Europe (Fernández-Molina & Bartolomé Gutiérrez, 2020; Griffiths & Norris, 2020; van... In Ireland, youth crime has significantly reduced, with reported incidents decreasing by a third from 2007 to 2019 (An Garda Síochána, 2019). Similar findings have been reported across youth justice services in the United Kingdom (HMIP, 2021). The notable decrease in recorded youth crime has led many policy makers, professionals, and researchers to ask the question; what is working to effect this change? There remains a thin evidence base for evaluating programmes developed for addressing ‘juvenile delinquency’, presenting a challenge to practitioners and policy makers wanting to introduce evidence-based approaches (Wilson & Lipsey, 2024). There have been significant changes and reforms within the juvenile justice system, moving away from retributive models and towards rehabilitative models focussed on young people’s development (April et al., 2023).

Comparisons across the literature have found therapeutic approaches to be more effective than behavioural control approaches in reducing recidivism. For example, findings reported as part of a systematic review (Evans-Chase & Zhou, 2014), whereby a narrative synthesis of quantitative outcomes from intervention studies, utilizing a control group, found that therapeutic approaches, as compared... The authors of this review found only 21 studies, out of a potential 141 spanning 13 years, met the quality inclusion criteria, indicating a lack of rigour in study design. They named treatment fidelity as the cause of quality inclusion failure. Where fidelity to treatment was adhered to in the studies, 88% reported an improvement in recidivism rates when compared to control groups. Whilst 120 studies were excluded from the systematic review, this speaks to study design and publication practises rather than a lack of evidence in support of therapeutic approaches to reducing recidivism (Evans-Chase & Zhou,...

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