Positive reinforcement is a key part of probation practice, and linked to client desistance from offending. The main way practitioners positively reinforce clients’ prosocial comments or behaviours is through praising them. However, praise is tricky in interaction, as...
Locality, legitimacy and the limits of diversion: Reviewing youth justice in Jersey
This article is based on the authors’ involvement in two reviews of Jersey’s youth justice system, carried out in 2010 and 2018. The reviews provide fresh insights into the process of moving towards a child-first, rights-informed youth justice system; the potential of...
The Jersey Supervision Skills Study
In Swansea University we have a long-standing interest in the effectiveness of probation practice and have made a number of contributions to the ‘What Works?’ literature, including an early evaluation of a cognitive-behavioural programme (Raynor and Vanstone 1997)...
Youth Justice in Jersey: Options for change
The Report is grounded in the wider research on youth justice and a review of the services offered to young people who break the law in Jersey. Accordingly, two questions are posed. Firstly, what does research tell us about the essential principles that should...
What Works in Jersey: The First Ten Years
The Jersey probation service has been implementing its own version of ‘what works’ for the last ten years. This paper outlines the approach used, and describes particular aspects of the development process which are believed to have contributed to relatively...
Jersey Revisited: reflections on the influence of a policy review on youth justice in an island microstate
In 2010 the authors were members of a team which was invited to carry out a review of youth justice policy and practice in the Channel Island of Jersey. This article describes the process of the review, its major recommendations, and what happened as a result....