Gang-involved young people: custody and beyond: research report

7 April 2015 | Tagged with the theme: Gangs

While there is an extensive literature on the rehabilitation of young people in general and a smaller, but substantial, literature on the onset of, and involvement in, gangs, gang crime, and serious youth violence, there remains a paucity of material on desistance from gang crime, the rehabilitation of gang-involved young people and, in particular, how their period of incarceration and return from custody might best be managed. This report synthesises what is known and draws inferences from both the literature and key ‘informants’ working in these fields to fill out this picture and tease out the implications for resettlement policy and practice.

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